Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 09:45:24 +0200 From: Bjarne Wichmann Petersen <freebsd.nospam@mekanix.dk> To: Kan Cai <kcai@cs.ubc.ca>, Abidoon Nadeem <abidoon@hotmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Starting X Automatically Message-ID: <200304130945.24786.freebsd.nospam@mekanix.dk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.53.0304122334340.601@granville.cs.ubc.ca> References: <Law9-OE17DOv5y4FypK0000499c@hotmail.com> <Pine.GSO.4.53.0304122334340.601@granville.cs.ubc.ca>
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On Sunday 13 April 2003 08:36, Kan Cai wrote: > try change your /etc/ttys file. > > set tty8 (or 9, I am not using FreeBSD right now) from off to on, and > change the xdm to kdm (do not forget change the path) if you are using > KDE. Is it possible to put some sort of "intelligence" into this setup? Eg. if something i X/kdm is broken it would *stop* trying to start them? Sometimes I've got to do at hard-reset of my machine and boot into single-user and change /etc/ttys because something is broken but FBSD keeps trying to start kdm/X and hinders me to get to at console. Bjarne -- Homepage: http://www.mekanix.dk
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