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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!solaris.cc.vt.edu!jmurray From: jmurray@cray-ymp.acm.stuorg.vt.edu (John Murray) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: HELP Please xdm problem on 2.1 Date: 21 Dec 1995 14:46:20 GMT Organization: ACM Student Machine Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4bbrvs$1e6@solaris.cc.vt.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: cray-ymp.acm.stuorg.vt.edu NNTP-Posting-User: news I just finshed installing 2.1 on my machine, I had 2.0.5 (didn't use the upgrade option just did a fresh install of 2.1) on this machine. The problem is that when xdm is started from rc.local file using a line like: /usr/X11/bin/xdm; sleep 10 after the sleep the console will lock up on the xdm login screen and I cannot type anything. Also in the xconsole window(which tried disabling, bu didn't work) what should appear on the first virtual console(the rest of the boot-up) apppers(the . after starting local deamonsand the date). If I log in as root and start up xdm manually it works fine. This occures with both the GENRIC kernel and custom kernels using both syscons and pcvt.I have seen this meathod mentioned here before and it worked on 2.0.5 and I would really like to get it working on 2.1. If you need any more info PLEASE e-mail me and I will be glad to send it to you. Your help on this matter is very much appriated. -John jmurray@vt.edu