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Date:      Mon, 14 Jan 2002 15:35:57 -0800
From:      Steve Wingate <steve@velosystems.net>
To:        bastill@sa.apana.org.au
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: No X for user - RTFM
Message-ID:  <20020114153557.570daab5.steve@velosystems.net>
In-Reply-To: <02011509533600.01039@BAPhD.gihon.org.au>
References:  <02011509533600.01039@BAPhD.gihon.org.au>

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On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 09:53:36 +1030
"Brian Astill" <bastill@sa.apana.org.au> wrote:

> I have run into the familiar "XF86OpenConsole ...." error when trying 
> to enter X as a user.
> So RTFM - in particular the FAQ.
> In /etc/ttys, I found:
> ttyv8. "usr/X11R6/bin/xdm - nodaemon". xterm. off secure
> and changed off to on.

Those periods in that xdm line don't belong so I don't know where you
got those from. Otherwise, you can always install xwrapper so users can
start X11 from a command prompt. Should be in ports.

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