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Date:      Sat, 22 May 2004 11:28:27 +0200
From:      Gunnar Flygt <flygt@sr.se>
To:        "Shaun T. Erickson" <ste@smxy.org>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: X doesn't run at boot
Message-ID:  <20040522092826.GB57199@sr.se>
In-Reply-To: <40AE903A.8020106@smxy.org>
References:  <40AE903A.8020106@smxy.org>

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On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 07:26:50PM -0400, Shaun T. Erickson wrote:
> I installed 5.2.1 on my Dell laptop. It runs great. I've configured X, 
> and that runs great. But it doesn't come up in X (xdm?) mode at boot 
> time. Is there a port I need to install so that it will? Or a entry I 
> need in my rc.conf, or what?

Edit /etc/ttys the line with ttyv8! If you set it to on instead of
default off you should start with the login for X. But you better try
that it works before you do this. Try (as root) `xdm -nodaemon` to see
that your X environment is OK.

> 
> 	-ste
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-- 
Gunnar Flygt
SR Datadrift
Sveriges Radio



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