From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 28 18: 5:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from out4.ibm.net (out4.ibm.net [165.87.194.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF05D150D2 for ; Sun, 28 Feb 1999 18:05:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mikegoe@ibm.net) Received: from nikki (slip129-37-208-52.oh.us.ibm.net [129.37.208.52]) by out4.ibm.net (8.8.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id CAA33814 for ; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 02:05:02 GMT Message-Id: <199903010205.CAA33814@out4.ibm.net> From: "Michael G." To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 21:10:21 -0500 Reply-To: "Michael G." X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows 98 (4.10.1998) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: XDM login Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The FAQ...DUH! Ofcourse... It says you can do it both ways...i'll try the other... Thanks fer da kick! Michael G. On Sun, 28 Feb 1999 19:59:35 -0600 (CST), Jonathan Fosburgh wrote: >On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, Michael G. wrote: > >> ..no answer in the archives so.... >> >> When I modify /etc/ttys to enable an xdm login I do infact >> get the screen..but can't log in...I'm forced to ctl+alt+f1 >> to a standard terminal to log in... is there something I >> missed? >Don't do it this way. You want to invoke xdm from /etc/rc.local. There >is a FAQ entry for this, I believe the question is 'How do I run xdm from >/etc/ttys?' or something along those lines in the X section. ------------------------------------------------------------------- ICQ #24517082 Live FreeBSD...Or Die! PIC X 10 VALUE "YES! COBOL" ------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message