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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!usenet.ucs.indiana.edu!bigbang.astro.indiana.edu!pitts From: pitts@bigbang.astro.indiana.edu (Jim Pitts) Subject: Re: NetBSD 0.9 and X console hang Message-ID: <CFIFIp.29x@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: bigbang.astro.indiana.edu Organization: Indiana University Astrophysics, Bloomington, IN References: <2ai0o3$9u6@aggedor.rmit.OZ.AU> Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1993 15:11:13 GMT Lines: 13 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