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- From: coizi01@convex.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (N. Zimmermann)
- Subject: Re: 0.99 pl 0/1 fine, but breaks xdm -nodaemon
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- Keywords: kernel linux 0.99
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 12:29:29 GMT
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- In <1h8rtsINNkir@golem.wcc.govt.nz> hamilton@golem.wcc.govt.nz (Michael Hamilton) writes:
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- >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.
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- >One possibility is that something about my system is mis-configured,
- >and 0.98 was more forgiving. /dev/console and /dev/tty0 are
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- > crw-rw-rw 1 root system 4, 0
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- >which seems correct. Startx works fine.
-
- >Can anyone else confirm this problem.
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- 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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