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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!foxhound.dsto.gov.au!fang.dsto.gov.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!basser.cs.su.oz.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!dmssyd.syd.dms.CSIRO.AU!dmsperth.per.dms.CSIRO.AU!uniwa!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!wotan.compaq.com!twisto.eng.hou.compaq.com!sword.eng.hou.compaq.com!mach.eng.hou.compaq.com!mcb From: mcb@mach.eng.hou.compaq.com (Mike Busby) Subject: Re: Shutting down XFree86-2.0 Organization: Compaq Computer Corporation References: <2iuadr$aid@portal.gmu.edu> <CKv326.KpI.3@cs.cmu.edu> Nntp-Posting-Host: mach.eng.hou.compaq.com Message-ID: <mcb.760732977@mach> Sender: news@sword.eng.hou.compaq.com (Netnews Account) Date: Tue, 8 Feb 1994 18:42:43 GMT Lines: 37 cline+@cs.cmu.edu (Kenneth Cline) writes: >We have been discussing this problem. The best solution for now >seems to be switching toi SYSCONS rather than PCCONS console >support in the kernel. If you don't want to recompile the kernel >and reconfigure for syscons, try running xconsole, which may help >by keeping the console device open. >Note: the XFree86 developers use SYSCONS because of current PCCONS >bugs (and added functionality). >Ken The only problem with this suggestion is that if I use the SYSCONS driver, then I don't get ANY keyboard response in X. Other than that, SYSCONS works just fine. I tried someones suggestion of putting an 'stty -f /dev/vga sane' after the 'kdb_mode -a' in startx. This did not work, but using /dev/console instead of /dev/vga worked (go figure). This was using the PCCONS driver. The bottom line is, if I use the SYSCONS driver, my keyboard is dead after ENTERING X. If I use the PCCONS driver, my keyboard is dead after EXITING X. Perhaps if someone would kindly post the correct setup for SYSCONS in /etc/ttys, it would help. I took a guess and commented out the /dev/console getty entry after adding all the ttyv* entries. This seems to work, as far as VT's are concerned. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael C. Busby | Unix System Support System Engineer, Sr. | Design Environment/Automation Compaq Computer Corporation | Internet: mcb@compaq.com P.O. Box 692000 m/s 050701 | Uunet: uunet!cpqhou!michaelb Houston, Texas, USA 77269-2000 | Phone: 713-374-5638 -------------------------------------------------------------------- "Armadillos.... Texas speed bumps." Views/opinions are mine alone.