[1583] in NetBSD-Development
dm console login hacking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Feb 17 00:22:39 1998
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 00:22:23 -0500
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
I think Nathan and I managed to get all the dm console login stuff to
work correctly today, with some help from Dan and Craig. It will take
a day or so for the dust to settle in both repositories.
One problem I don't know how to fix is that sometimes the console
login comes up not scrolled all the way down, and you have to hit
return. This could potentially be a race condition where output goes
to the console before the X server resets the video card. I tried
changing the sleep(2) to a sleep(5) after shutting down X, but that
didn't even seem to induce a wait (which could be a SIGCHLD
interrupting the sleep, but then I'd expect the X server to be done
messing with the video card), and it didn't fix the problem.
Bothersome.
