On Sun, 7 Dec 2003, Mark Dixon wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sunday 07 Dec 2003 21:47, Andrew Lankford wrote: > > On to another topic. Is anyone having trouble with > > keyboard lockups (every 3rd or 4th boot) in -CURRENT > > lately? I find that booteasy responds ok, but by the > > time xdm starts up, my keyboard doesn't respond to > > anything apart from the number lock key and the old > > "three finger salute". > > I've seen this recently as well - I use gdm. The only time I've been able to > reproduce it every time was when I had spamd (from spamcop) enabled in /usr/ > local/etc/rc.d - this led me to believe it was an rc problem. There is a known race between X and getty that's been around for ages. If X and getty on vty0 crank up simultaneously, syscons will drop the keyboard. The workaround is to insert a delay into your xdm startup so it jumps into X after vty0 has started. -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite_at_gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.orgReceived on Mon Dec 08 2003 - 11:24:51 UTC
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