Re: xdm receives no input

[Chavdar Ivanov <ci4ic4%gmail.com@localhost>]

Awesome, thanks! That's a thing which pops up from time to time, I've
had it myself.

On Wed, 13 Mar 2019 at 15:04, Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 05:17:10PM +0000, Chavdar Ivanov wrote:
> > /etc/ttys ?
>
> Absolutely right. This laptop's xdm worked before the update, so I doubted
> your suggestion.
>
> What happened is that the update replaced my /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers.ws
> in which I had carefully set vt08 as the terminal to use. The update
> changed it to vt05, which was inconsistent with my /etc/ttys.
>
> Editing /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers back to vt08 fixed things.
>
> mystery solved!
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Patrick



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