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From: eilts@late.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de (Hinrich Eilts)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.windows.x.i386unix,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: XFree86 2.0 with NetBSD 0.9exits with system messed up.
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1993 10:54:28 GMT
Organization: LATE, Uni-Erlangen, Germany
Message-ID: <2ci8l4E65f@uni-erlangen.de>
References: <1993Nov18.031132.21910@icaen.uiowa.edu>
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tpschlie@news.icaen.uiowa.edu (Timothy Paul Schlie) writes:

>Hola,

>	I'm running XFree86 2.0's S3 server under NetBSD 0.9 and I have a 
>problem when I exit X.  I have no response from the system.  Keystrokes are
>echoed on the screen, but I get no response whatsoever.  I'm not running
>any kind of virtual console system, and the system seems to very stable
>otherwise.  I've looked at the docs that come with X, but nothing seems to
>help.  Any ideas?   - Tim Schlie
I have the same problem with the Mono-server. I did a rlogin from another
machine and killed xinit (X was already gone), but it didn't solve it.
stty sane < /dev/vga
solved it. Maybe changing
exec twm
to
twm
stty sane < /dev/vga
helps (I do it only since a short time, up to now it works).
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