On Mon, 6 Jun 2022, Matthias Petermann wrote:
The symptom is familiar to me. If I remember correctly, you had to start the X server on a tty that is not occupied by a getty yet, otherwise the keystrokes are not passed on.
That's it, of course, but, I don't know which tty is being used twice here. The default configs--/etc/ttys, xdm, etc.--leave ttyE4 free for use, so you only need xdm=YES in rc.conf. The logs and configs. should tell us... -RVP