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Date:      Tue, 12 Feb 2002 19:16:39 -0500
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        Thorsten Trampisch <thorsten@trampisch.com>, Stephen <crispan@iprimus.com.au>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Booting to an X login.
Message-ID:  <p0510140bb88f60aae744@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.4.33.0202121501320.714-100000@otaku.freeshell.org>
References:  <Pine.NEB.4.33.0202121501320.714-100000@otaku.freeshell.org>

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At 3:03 PM +0100 2/12/02, Thorsten Trampisch wrote:
>Hi,
>
>you have to setup your XFree and if this works you get an login
>prompt after booting if you set the line
>ttyv8   "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon"  xterm   off secure
>to
>ttyv8   "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon"  xterm   on secure
>in your /etc/ttys
>
>then reboot and it should work.

And in my experience, 99.9% of the work is in that phrase
   "you have to setup your XFree"

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu

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