Re: Unusual keyboard behaviour

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 <[email protected]>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