From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 22 18: 0:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp2a.ispchannel.com (smtp.ispchannel.com [24.142.63.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58FE437B546 for ; Sat, 22 Jul 2000 18:00:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mhumm@ispchannel.com) Received: from ispchannel.com ([206.153.129.2]) by smtp2a.ispchannel.com (InterMail vK.4.02.00.00 201-232-116 license 7d3764cdaca754bf8ae20adf0db2aa60) with ESMTP id <20000723010229.JBOR539.smtp2a@ispchannel.com>; Sat, 22 Jul 2000 18:02:29 -0700 Message-ID: <3952B651.F6BD1FFD@ispchannel.com> Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 19:58:57 -0500 From: "Mark A. Hummel" Organization: Innovative Solutions X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Glenn Johnson Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Can't start xdm on boot ??? References: <200007221652.LAA03068@gforce.johnson.home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yes, I did...same results, but I did have an error in /etc/ttys. I obviously wasn't paying enough attention to your instructions and didn't change "off" to "on" for ttyv8. When I did, xdm came up on boot prompting me for a login username and password. When I entered one, it looked like KDE was going to start, but for some reason, it didn't. Instead, xdm looped back to the login again. No matter how many or which user names I typed in, it take my input and loops back to another blank login screen. Any ideas? We're getting further down the road. Mark Glenn Johnson wrote: > > >>>>> On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, "Mark" == Mark A. Hummel wrote: > > Mark> Okay Glenn here's an update. I just tried it -- still no good. Maybe > Mark> it's because I'm a newbie, but I suspect I'm missing something very > Mark> obvious. > > Mark> I didn't have to uncomment the line in /etc/ttys > > Mark> ttyv8 "usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure > > Mark> It was already turned on (not remed out). > > Mark> I changed the line in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers to: > > Mark> :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X vt9 > ^^^ > Did you try it without this? > > -- > Glenn Johnson > glennpj@bayouhome.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message