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From: keith@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Keith Packard)
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Subject: Re: more PS/2 xdm problems
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Date: 3 May 90 18:11:36 GMT
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> Hi.  Thanks to those who responded to my authorization problem.  But xdm still
> has problems getting the X server started.  I've tried many combinations of 
> Xservers and xdm-config but always get the message: Cannot open /dev/tty
> to query
> device id.  Has anyone else run across this problem??? 
> 
> By the way, I'm running AIX 1.2 with X11R4 xdm on a PS/2 model 70.

The problem occurs because the IBM server opens the current tty to do hot-key
switching between X and other virtual screens.  I suspect you may be able to
work around this problem by changing the "/dev/tty" string in
mit/server/ddx/ibm/AIX/hftUtils.c at line 509 to "/dev/console".

This may solve some of the troubles you're having; but as I have no IBM machine
to test it on, I can't be sure.

Keith Packard
MIT X Consortium