Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2001 12:52:11 -0500 (CDT) From: Jason Nugent <malhavoc@stomped.com> To: Louis LeBlanc <leblanc+freebsd@acadia.ne.mediaone.net> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: How to to boot directly into X from Freebsd 4.0 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0107011251170.92146-100000@smithers.stomped.com> In-Reply-To: <20010701132027.B32402@acadia.ne.mediaone.net>
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On Sun, 1 Jul 2001 at 12:51pm, Louis LeBlanc thought about > On 06/29/01 09:24 PM, William Richard sat at the `puter and typed: > > On Thursday 28 June 2001 16:07, festus wrote: > > > > > Can someone give an idea of the files I need to tweak to get this > > > working? > > > > Some miserable bastard wrote an article last year on setting up XDM, which is > > at Daemon News: > > > > http://www.daemonnews.org/200001/xdm.html > > > > HTH. > > > > -- > > Cheers, > > William Richard > > wdr@tdl.com > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > Very helpful! Unfortunately it misses one thing. The article tells > you to add a line in /etc/rc.local, which doesn't seem to exist on > 4.3-STABLE. For the final detail on getting xdm to start, look at the > manual at > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-xdm.html > Particularly section 12.5.2. There is one field on one line that must > change from 'off' to 'on'. Lou, You can create this file if you want. It just doesn't come with FreeBSD by default. It *does* get read if present, though. HTH, Jason ---------------------- Jason Nugent Aka MalHavoc Server Programmer and Administrator S T O M P E D . C O M For PGP public key: http://malhavoc.stomped.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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