From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 29 2:24:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EDEA37B400 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 02:24:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chen.org.nz (chen.org.nz [210.54.19.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5248C43E42 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 02:24:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: from grimoire.chen.org.nz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chen.org.nz (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g7T9O8ve069964; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 21:24:08 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc@grimoire.chen.org.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by grimoire.chen.org.nz (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g7T9O7Tm069963; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 21:24:07 +1200 (NZST) Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 21:24:07 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: Bsd Neophyte Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: enabling a graphical login prompt Message-ID: <20020829092407.GA69930@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <20020829090354.62010.qmail@web20103.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020829090354.62010.qmail@web20103.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 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 Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 02:03:54AM -0700, Bsd Neophyte wrote: > > i've seen this with certain versions of linux and with solaris... however, > I don't know how to do it with freebsd. > > considering i'll be running TightVNC, I would like to enable a grapical > login prompt when i boot the system. Once you've got a working /etc/X11/XF86Config, change the following line in /etc/ttys: ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm off secure to ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure ^^ A "kill -HUP 1" will activate xdm; or you can try a reboot. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- If you're right 90% of the time, why quibble about the remaining 3%? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message