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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!destroyer!cs.ubc.ca!uw-beaver!rice!news.Rice.edu!rich From: rich@Rice.edu (Richard Murphey) Subject: Re: [X386]Keyboard locks In-Reply-To: chr@bio128.uni-bielefeld.de's message of Fri, 9 Oct 92 14:41:36 GMT Message-ID: <RICH.92Oct9170243@kappa.Rice.edu> Sender: news@rice.edu (News) Reply-To: Rich@rice.edu Organization: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University References: <1992Oct9.144136.25436@unibi.uni-bielefeld.de> Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 23:02:43 GMT Lines: 27 In article <1992Oct9.144136.25436@unibi.uni-bielefeld.de> chr@bio128.uni-bielefeld.de (Christian Bartling) writes: I every case I tried to start the server from the console. Some days ago someone wrote that one have to change one line in the /etc/ttys to get the server running. Could this concern my problem ???? By the way: I built a /dev/vga with mknod vga c 12 0.... if you run /usr/X386/lib/X11/etc/x386install, it will change the entry in /etc/ttys from 'console' to 'vga'. You need to either reboot or 'KILL -1 1' to force init to reread /etc/ttys. Rebooting is easier since if by chance init doesn't reread /etc/ttys, your console may hang. >From README.386BSD: x386install creates links so that the distribution appears to be in /usr/X386, puts the X man pages in /etc/man.conf, creates /dev/vga if needed, adds /usr/X386/bin to the default path in /etc/csh.login, and changes `console' to `vga' in /etc/ttys so that the X server will interact properly with the console login session. Unless you have configured the console to be one of the com ports or have disabled logins on the PC screen, /etc/ttys must be changed. If /etc/ttys is changed, you must reboot for this to take effect (e.g. `sync;shutdown -r now'). Although `kill -HUP 1' should work instead, it will sometimes hang the console, so rebooting is safer. Rich