Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 04:07:12 +0100 From: "Siegbert Baude" <Siegbert.Baude@gmx.de> To: "Otter" <otterr@telocity.com>, <daemon@catholic.org>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: newbie X vt question: Message-ID: <001401c049fa$29327c40$4011a8c0@wohnheim.uniulm.de> References: <HLEDJBJKDDPDJBMGCLPPGEJDCIAA.otterr@telocity.com>
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Hi, > }- how do I go about turning OFF any on parameters in the > }ttyv1-7, so that I may use X. and do I need to make these > }changes in /dev/ttys and /etc/ttys > if you're looking to use xfree86, go to the line which starts with > ttyv8 and change the "off" to "on". when you reboot, /etc/ttys will > call xdm to start up, prompting you with a graphical login. this can > also be substituted with kdm, wdm, etc once they are installed by the > superuser. if you should run into a snag, ctrl+alt+backspace should > kill the xdm login and drop you back to a command line prompt. Of course, you donīt need to reboot, just SIGHUP init :-0 Ciao Siegbert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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