From: coizi01@convex.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (N. Zimmermann) Subject: Re: 0.99 pl 0/1 fine, but breaks xdm -nodaemon Date: 23 Dec 1992 12:29:29 GMT
In <1h8rtsINNkir@golem.wcc.govt.nz> hamilton@golem.wcc.govt.nz (Michael Hamilton) writes:
>I've just built 0.99 pl1. And so far things seem pretty good. The
[...]
>doesn't work, so I rebooted the last kernel I used before 0.99 (0.98
>pl5) and everything works fine. The X background comes up, but
>I think xdm fails to grab the console input, as I have to press
>a key to make it continue, and then when the login window appears
>I can't enter anything.
>One possibility is that something about my system is mis-configured,
>and 0.98 was more forgiving. /dev/console and /dev/tty0 are
> crw-rw-rw 1 root system 4, 0
>which seems correct. Startx works fine.
>Can anyone else confirm this problem.
I got xdm working under 0.99pl1 with .../xdm -nodeamon </dev/tty1
from Xdm script. Be sure commenting out the first getty in /etc/inittab.
Norbert
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