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- From: probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Possible cause of keyboard lockups in XFree
- Date: 6 Nov 1992 01:52:33 -0600
- Organization: Kansas State University
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- ins217t@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !) writes:
-
- >Erm, I've found a possilbe cause of keyboard lockups in Xfree86...
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- >I got the new admutils and new poeigl and compiled...
- >It linked /dev/tty1 to /dev/console (which was prev. linked to tty0)
- >When I started X this afternoon, the keyboard wouldn't respond...
- >Changing the link back did the trick...
- ><Just in case any of you out there in netland are having sim. probs>
- >BTW, the new login didn't work when i compiled it
- >- i had to delve for the emergency boot disk to put the old one back...
- >(and it was 80K compared to 5K for the old one !!!)
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- >Enjoy !
- >Cos !
- >--
- >Andrew J. Cosgriff ! ins217t@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au
-
- This is why I suggest not making /dev/console a symbolic link. Just
- do a mknod /dev/console c 4 0 and be done with it. Then you don't have
- to worry about programs screwing with the links. Also, its generally a
- good idea to read the Makefile and see what the make install does before
- actually doing it.
-
- James
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