From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 12 16:17: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA7D437B402 for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 16:17:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g1D0Ges140346; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 19:16:40 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 19:16:39 -0500 To: Thorsten Trampisch , Stephen From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: Booting to an X login. Cc: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.3 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) 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 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message