Ah, of course; getty was the key - at least, that's what I remember now
from 1.4. Seems I must have asked the same question that time. Thanks,
and sorry for the repetition!

Graham

David Brownlee wrote:

> 	Noticed this on a diskful shark. Have you tried disabling getty
> 	and running xdm?
> 
> 		David/absolute		-- www.netbsd.org: No hype required --
> 
> On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Graham Allan wrote:
> 
> > Wondering if many people these days are still using diskless sharks. I
> > have a few which I've been updating to NetBSD 1.5, and I notice a
> > glitch returning that was in some earlier versions of 1.4 but went away
> > by 1.4P (where these systems stayed until now). Namely that the
> > keyboard goes into some kind of erratic repeat mode, as if a key is
> > held down. As these machines are running KDE, and are swapping over NFS
> > (although they have 64M), they may simply be trying to do too much...
> > but it worked rather well with 1.4P. Any ideas? Would building a new
> > kernel help?

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