Re: Strange X problem

2006-10-07 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 7 Oct 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Message: 26 > Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 19:36:32 -0500 > From: Paul Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --On October 6, 2006 5:23:45 PM -0700 backyard > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > "For FreeBSD, edit /etc/ttys and find the line like > > this: >

Re: Strange X problem

2006-10-06 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On October 6, 2006 5:23:45 PM -0700 backyard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "For FreeBSD, edit /etc/ttys and find the line like this: ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm off secure and edit it to this: ttyv8 "/usr/local/bin/kdm" xterm on secure Yeah, I got a chance to lo

Re: Strange X problem

2006-10-06 Thread backyard
--- Paul Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --On Friday, October 06, 2006 15:10:21 -0400 "Bob > M." > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > > >> Therein lies the problem. There *is* an entry in > /etc/ttys: > >> ttyv8 "/usr/local/bin/kdm -nodaemon" xterm > on secure > >> > >> Guess I'll jus

Re: Strange X problem

2006-10-06 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Friday, October 06, 2006 15:10:21 -0400 "Bob M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Therein lies the problem. There *is* an entry in /etc/ttys: ttyv8 "/usr/local/bin/kdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure Guess I'll just start double-checking everything. Maybe there's a typo somewhere. Is your p

Re: Strange X problem

2006-10-06 Thread Bob M.
On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 12:05 -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: > --On Friday, October 06, 2006 08:30:36 -0400 Robert Huff > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Paul Schmehl writes: > > > >> Not really. I want X to start *without* requiring a console > >> login and prompt me for a login in the gui, ju

Re: Strange X problem

2006-10-06 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Friday, October 06, 2006 08:30:36 -0400 Robert Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Paul Schmehl writes: Not really. I want X to start *without* requiring a console login and prompt me for a login in the gui, just like my workstation does. The traditional answer is to put an en

Re: Strange X problem

2006-10-06 Thread Robert Huff
Paul Schmehl writes: > Not really. I want X to start *without* requiring a console > login and prompt me for a login in the gui, just like my > workstation does. The traditional answer is to put an entry in /etc/ttys. (See the man page for details.)

Re: Strange X problem

2006-10-05 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 00:10:44 -0500 Paul Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can type starx or gdm after logging in as root, but that's not what I > want. Not sure if it is the same as with gdm, but gdm installs an rc file in /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d/gdm gdm_enable="YES" needs to be added to rc.co

Re: Strange X problem

2006-10-05 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On October 6, 2006 12:52:12 AM -0400 Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thursday 05 October 2006 15:36, Paul Schmehl wrote: What did I miss? Don't know exactly, as I am quite new to FreeBSD; but I can tell you what I did. After the installation of X11, I created a file in my home direct

Re: Strange X problem

2006-10-05 Thread Bob
On Thursday 05 October 2006 15:36, Paul Schmehl wrote: > > What did I miss? > Don't know exactly, as I am quite new to FreeBSD; but I can tell you what I did. After the installation of X11, I created a file in my home directory called .xinitrc in that file I have the single line exec startkde.

Strange X problem

2006-10-05 Thread Paul Schmehl
I just got done setting up 6.1 RELEASE on my laptop. Cvsup'd all the ports, updated xorg, etc. and installed kde. For some odd reason, I can't get X to start up from boot. On my workstation, I have this in /etc/ttys: ttyv8 "/usr/local/bin/kdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure When I installed