On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 07:43:28PM -0500, Ben Bogart - FMPM/F1999 wrote:
> Hello all,
> I've run into very strange problems running xdm on 1.5. I have very 
> strange keyboard behavior, either the keyboard locks up (and I have to 
> reset the Xserver) or hitting one key will send many events for that key. 
> (10/sec about) everything working fine when I start X via Xstart. Anyone 
> having XDM problem under 1.5?

The chances are getty and X are both running on the same terminal window.
One way to prevent this is to add "vt08" to the end of the like beginning
":0 local"... in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers. This will make X run on
/dev/ttyE7. Then check that then entry for ttyE7 in /etc/ttys is off, eg:

ttyE7   none                            vt220   off secure

If you need to edit /etc/ttys, kill -HUP 1 so that the changes take effect.

> I am now running win2k/ linux and BSD, and the time on thier clocks 
> (interpretations of the battery clock?) are all different. Can I sync the 
> time on all these OSs?

Odd - I guess that you are in winter time (.ca=Northern hemisphere) => I
would have expected them all to agree, no?

Cheers,

Patrick