From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 7 14:40:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from itouch.co.nz (itouch.co.nz [203.99.66.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE07037B416 for ; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 14:40:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@itouch.co.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by itouch.co.nz (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f77Ldhc40993; Wed, 8 Aug 2001 09:39:43 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 09:39:42 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: Louis LeBlanc Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86 wierdness Message-ID: <20010808093942.B38018@itouchnz.itouch> References: <20010806181635.A3544@acadia.ne.mediaone.net> <5622162137.20010806152720@dsl-only.net> <4gwv4gyehk.v4g@localhost.localdomain> <20010807173144.A1531@acadia.ne.mediaone.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010807173144.A1531@acadia.ne.mediaone.net>; from leblanc+freebsd@acadia.ne.mediaone.net on Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 05:31:45PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 05:31:45PM -0400, Louis LeBlanc wrote: > Ok, I got XFree86-4 installed from the ports. Then, I brought down to > single user mode, and brought back up to multiuser mode. > > Immediately, getty started complaining that xdm was hitting tty8 too > quickly, and went to sleep for 30 seconds. 6 times. It never came up > to xdm. > > I went to /etc/ttys and commented out the line saying to turn on xdm. > Back to single user, then back to multi again. No good. > > What the heck did I do wrong? I told the configure process to install > xdm, but that is the only thing out of the ordinary. Any help is > apprecated. When you install a new version of X, the first thing to do is to see whether 'startx' comes up properly. If that does, *then* you uncomment the line for xdm. So. What does the output of startx say? Does it come up at all? -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message