Charlie Allom <charlie@rubberduck.com> writes:

> Hi I am running 1.6H and XFree 4.2.1 and all is fine - until I load up
> an xterm in 'ion' and my keyboard is very mangled. keys dont work,
> then repeat at extreme rates. It's almost random.

How do you launch X?

It looks like you have both xdm and getty running at the same time.

You should either use startx or remove the entry from /dev/ttys if you
want to run xdm.

 Aymeric