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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA1911 ; Tue, 23 Feb 93 15:03:41 EST Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!winzeler From: lwinzele@uiuc.edu (Loren Winzeler) Subject: Garbled login after installing XFree-1.2 Message-ID: <C2v3s3.Hz7@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Summary: Trouble with login prompt on console Keywords: XFree86 xdm login bug problem Sender: winzeler@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Loren Winzeler ) Reply-To: lwinzeler@uiuc.edu (Loren Winzeler) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1993 18:09:24 GMT Lines: 42 After installing XFree86-1.2 and using the binary "nostrip" kernel on agate, I am having troubles with the regular login screen. Everything runs fine in my opinion, including X, except that on boot up, the login prompt is garbled into special characters and trash. I can still login in though, but the characters echoed to the screen are junk. After a single failed password or login, the words login: and Password: print correctly. I think the problem is in my /etc/ttys file. I changed to console to vga for X. Is this all that should be changed? What emulation should be used, pc3? The documentation on this what unclear. I installed the pccons linkkit and compiled it (using the older gcc, stealing the extra lib file from ref to solve the __main missing bug) but have not even moved the new server into use. I have not been running xdm upon startup. Should I be? Since I have limited space and cannot install source or recompile, should I be using the kernel with pccons support? (Does it have all the 0.2.1 patches?) The nostrip kernel binary on agate was supposed to have pccons support, right? (I guess I avoided misnaming problems by not using the kernels in the 1.2 directory, eh.) Also, I have not looked into it, but upon boot up an error message is now echoed to the screen... Find: .X11-unix .. file or dir not found. Was something added to the rc.local? Thanks for any help -Loren -- Reach me at: CCSO University of Illinois Wolfram Research, Inc. winzeler@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu winzeler@wri.com -- Reach me at: CCSO University of Illinois Wolfram Research, Inc. winzeler@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu winzeler@wri.com