Re: XServer on Solaris 8

From: Alan Coopersmith (alanc_at_alum.calberkeley.org)
Date: 04/30/03


Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 02:10:15 +0000 (UTC)

hemant_narang8@yahoo.com (Hemant) writes in comp.unix.solaris:
|I have multiple servers but only one keyboard, so I used to start the
|servers from the Boot OK Prompt and issue the command boot -r and pull
|the keyboard out of the keyboard port and the systems used to run
|fine.

That's not a very good thing to do to the systems.

|but eversince I upgraded from Solaris 7 to Solaris 8, this procedure
|isn't working. Whenever I pull out the keyboard, the X Server refuses
|to comeup and then doing init 6 doesn't helps.

The latest Solaris 8 Xsun patches allow you to simply never have a
keyboard & mouse attached when running Xsun, if you enable the Null
Mouse & Keyboard feature, but then even if you plug one in it will be
ignored. Do you ever need to interact with the Xserver on these
machines?

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