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From: pitts@bigbang.astro.indiana.edu (Jim Pitts)
Subject: Re: NetBSD 0.9 and X console hang
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In article <2ai0o3$9u6@aggedor.rmit.OZ.AU> rxtgep@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU (Glen Pill) writes:
>Is anyone else having or had the problem of the console hanging when using
>NetBSD 0.9 and XFree86 1.3u1 with xdm ???  It seems to happen nightly as
>when I check it out in the mornings, sure enough the keyboard is dead to
>the world.  The mouse pointer still moves around though, just the keyboard
>seems to be affected.


Until XFree86-2.0 comes out I solve this problem by starting up xdm with
the -nodaemon flag.  I have no problems running in this mode, however
I would like to run xdm as a daemon eventually.

						Jim