From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 7 17:25:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from midway.uchicago.edu (midway.uchicago.edu [128.135.12.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 657BD37B404 for ; Fri, 7 Jun 2002 17:25:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Yggdrasil (adsl-68-20-38-113.dsl.chcgil.ameritech.net [68.20.38.113]) by midway.uchicago.edu (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g580PGNb017446; Fri, 7 Jun 2002 19:25:16 -0500 (CDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: David Syphers Reply-To: dsyphers@uchicago.edu To: Subject: Re: kde [solved] Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 19:25:17 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.4] Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200206071902.27925.dsyphers@uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <200206071902.27925.dsyphers@uchicago.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200206071925.01245.dsyphers@uchicago.edu> 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 Friday 07 June 2002 07:02 pm, David Syphers wrote: > (EE) Unable to locate/open config file > (EE) Error from xf86HandleConfigFile() > > Fatal server error: > no screens found It finally dawned on me that it probably wasn't complaining about a kdm/xdm config file, but rather XF86Config. I had this file in /root, but when I moved it to /etc, everything worked as advertised (with ttyv8 on). So kdm from the command line looks in /root, but kdm from ttys looks in /etc. -David -- Everyone who believes in telekinesis, raise my hand... Astronomy and Astrophysics Center The University of Chicago To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message