In message <9701021554.ZM23857@picasso.me> you wrote:

> > Another thing about xdm, when I do a reboot if it is running, the machine
> > will not reboot, but will either put me into debuging mode, or completely
> > lock the machine.
> Odd.

I recently tried to use xdm too, and if I do a 'shutdown' when xdm is running
the system goes down correctly but the 'reboot countdown' stops at '1' and I
have to use the reset button.

> a) Run setdisplay -c 16 (other options to taste) on /dev/vidcvideo0 before
> starting X. Note that due to a bug in the console the mode reverts to 8 bpp
> if X ever reinitialises :-(

This is probably related to the same bug: I'd like to run X in 1280x1024
instead of 1024x768 as the other consoles so I use setdisplay to set this
resolution before starting xdm. This works OK, I login using xdm but when I
exit Xarm reinitialises in 1280x1024 (I can see the 'server booting' image)
but then it crashes and restart once agin in 1024x768. Sometimes it also
seems to think that the resolution is still 1280x1024 so all the display is
corrupted. This is the syslog output:

Jan  2 11:47:17 riscbsd /netbsd: Data abort: 'Permission error (page)' status = 00f address = 00000026 PC = 000529b8
Jan  2 11:47:18 riscbsd /netbsd: Process = f150f100 pid = 254 comm = Xarm-27
Jan  2 11:47:18 riscbsd /netbsd: CPSR=60000013 Traceback info (frame=f2776fb8)
Jan  2 11:47:18 riscbsd /netbsd: fp->lr=f010144c fp->pc=f011007c
Jan  2 11:47:18 riscbsd /netbsd: Trapframe PC = 000529b8
Jan  2 11:47:18 riscbsd /netbsd: Trapframe SPSR = 20000010
Jan  2 11:47:18 riscbsd /netbsd: Multiple open of/dev/vidcvideo0 by proc 443
Jan  2 11:47:21 riscbsd /netbsd: qms: setting mode with non empty buffer (20)

About the use of setdisplay, why can't I create a setuid root shell script? I
wanted to change to 1280x1024 from a common user and so I made a shell script
containing the setdisplay command and made it setuid root but it still report
'permission denied' (or whatever). I had to make setdisplay itself setuid
root and now it does work.

Finally, I tried to compile xsysstats but rpc.rstat doesn't seem to work
anymore (it used to run with the 1.1-release, I think) and in fact also rup
doesn't work:

Dec 30 15:44:30 riscbsd inetd[78]: /usr/libexec/rpc.rstatd: exit status 0x1
Dec 30 15:45:01 riscbsd rpc.rstatd[415]: can't get namelist
Dec 30 15:45:12 riscbsd rpc.rstatd[422]: can't get namelist
Dec 30 15:50:00 riscbsd inetd[78]: pmap_unset(100001, 1) 
Dec 30 15:50:00 riscbsd inetd[78]: pmap_unset(100001, 2) 
Dec 30 15:50:00 riscbsd inetd[78]: pmap_unset(100001, 3) 
Dec 30 15:50:02 riscbsd rpc.rstatd[444]: can't get namelist
Dec 30 15:50:02 riscbsd inetd[78]: /usr/libexec/rpc.rstatd: exit status 0x1

Can anybody tell me what's wrong with it?

Cheers,
Sergio

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