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Date:      Tue, 02 May 2000 13:40:13 -0400
From:      David Heller <dheller1@rochester.rr.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Newbie question.
Message-ID:  <390F12FD.4E02B572@rochester.rr.com>
References:  <B5339FEF.BE6%lds@apple.com> <001501bfb3ee$87a3cab0$4ef00404@wildkat> <20000502135335.A1459@physics.iisc.ernet.in>

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Rahul Siddharthan wrote:
> 
> > Cannot boot directly to X? Did you create xsession in your home directory?
> > If not, please do.
> 
> Eh?  Why should that help his system boot into X?
> 
> > > However I can not boot directly to X. Which file do I need to modify to
> > > start X after init time (my /etc/defaults/rc.conf correctly included a
> > > local_startup option pointing to rc.d and the file in there contains xdm
> > but
> > > that doesn't work.)
> 
> What does the file in rc.d say?  Does it include the full path and so
> on?
> 
> I have a line at the bottom of /etc/rc.local, that works
> fine for me.  In fact I feel its preferable since it ensures that
> xdm/equivalent starts after everything else. I don't know the
> official solution, though.
> 
> Rahul.
> 
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I edited /etc/ttys and uncommented the line with xdm in it an turned it
on. I did try starting Xdm with rc.local first however I could not do
anything useful as It would not take any keyboard input!!
Also you must have an .xsession file for EVERY user who will log in. 

Dave


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