Subject: Re: NetBSD 1.5 on shark
To: Graham Allan <allan@physics.umn.edu>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: port-arm32
Date: 12/14/2000 14:42:48
	No problems - glad it all working!

		David/absolute		-- www.netbsd.org: No hype required --


On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Graham Allan wrote:

> 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?
>
>