This change worked and all is good in the OpenBSD Sparc64 world for me now.
Thanks to Matthieu! Angus On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Matthieu Herrb <matthieu.he...@laas.fr>wrote: > On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 01:35:49PM +1100, Angus Beath wrote: > > Hi Guys, > > > > Wondering if anyone can help me? I have a Sun Blade 1500 running OpenBSD > > 5.0/Sparc64 and with a PCI PGX video card instead of the XVR-600 junk it > > shipped with. Once I did this swap it actually became usable as a > desktop. > > > > I've installed the Gnome desktop with GDM etc using a very useful guide > > from the net. Everything works except the keyboard does random strange > > things. It will, for example, keep a CTRL-D in it's buffer after I've > > exited a terminal session and I then can't open another terminal without > it > > instantly closing. > > > > If I've hit enter to execute a command it will not only execute the > command > > but continue behaving as if I've hit enter 50 times. > > > > Does anyone perhaps have a tip about how I might deal with this? I'm > only a > > beginner with OpenBSD so it's highly likely I'm missing something obvious > > and my Google-fu is letting me down. > > > > Did you disable the console getty after enabling gdm ? > > If not X and getty are fighting for keyboard input and this produces > the kind of behaviours you describe. > > Esit /etc/ttys and set the console getty process to "off", then reboot > or pkill -1 init. > -- > Matthieu Herrb
