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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!david
From: david@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au (David Le Blanc)
Subject: Re: X386 & Keyboard
Message-ID: <david.715409745@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au>
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Date:  2 Sep 92 04:55:45 GMT
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joergens@snorre.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Ulrich Joergens (PG211)) writes:

>I have the following problem:

>starting xdm from /etc/rc (as last entry) my keyboard is ignored.

Did you remove the line in your /etc/ttys which specified the console 
(or 'vga' is more correct) as a getty line?

You must remove the 
'console "/usr/bin/getty pc2" on secure'
line to stop the getty grabbing control of your keyboard.


I may be wrong though... :-)
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