From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 10 12:39:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA21632 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 12:39:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ix.netcom.com (sil-wa4-27.ix.netcom.com [207.93.136.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA21607 for ; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 12:39:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tomdean@ix.netcom.com) Received: (from tomdean@localhost) by ix.netcom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) id MAA02713; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 12:38:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tomdean) Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 12:38:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199808101938.MAA02713@ix.netcom.com> From: Thomas Dean To: aenseidhe@jeo.ru CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: (aenseidhe@jeo.ru) Subject: Re: starting X Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Did you install X? Did you configure X? You can test X from the command line with '/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon'. If X is installed and configured, the currently recommended method of starting X is to do it in rc.local. Add: if [ -x /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm ] ; then # need to cleanup first. if [ -f /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-pid ] ; then rm -f /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-pid fi # now, we can start it. echo "xdm"; /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm fi You also need to have one ttyv? off. Most of the entries for ttyv? read: ttyv0 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure # Virtual terminals ttyv1 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure ttyv2 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure ... Change one of them to read: ttyv5 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 off secure This example shows using ttyv5. Normally, people use the last one, whatever it is. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message