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Date:      Thu, 3 Feb 2000 10:19:44 -0500 (EST)
From:      Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.runet.edu>
To:        R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@nwlink.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: starting X when booting
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10002031014420.29109-100000@peloton.runet.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3899112B.DA1114F4@nwlink.com>

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Hi

On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, R Joseph Wright wrote:

Sorry for the message I just sent - should have read far enough forward to
see this one!  :-)

> Now, I've got it working so it'll start kdm after it boots, but when I
> enter my login, I get a basically blank screen with a band of colors
> at the top.  Then, after about 3 seconds, it takes me back to kdm.  I
> tried using xdm as well, with the same result.

Do you have an executable .xsession file in your home directory that looks
something like:

ssh-agent
exec wmaker

In your case since you're using KDE you should move wmaker out and replace
it w/ kwm or whatever it is.  :-)

To know for sure if this is the problem, check your .xsession-errors file
in your home directory.  I'm pretty sure this is the problem however.

> Another question:  /etc/ttys has the line
> ttyv10	"/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon"	xterm	off	insecure
> I understand this has to do with assigning a virtual terminal to X, but
> what else does all this do?  If I'm using kdm, would I put it in there
> instead of xdm?

Starts up X on ttyv10.  :-)  If you want to use kdm, replace xdm w/ kdm
and off you'll go.  Read xdm(1) to see about the -nodaemon switch and man
ttys(5) for the rest.

Brett
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