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Date:      Wed, 16 Jun 2004 07:18:10 -0400
From:      Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
To:        "n3rdBoy ." <destroyingculture@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: kdm
Message-ID:  <20040616071810.31e718a9.wmoran@potentialtech.com>
In-Reply-To: <BAY19-F30KFlNwwmZLy00021e70@hotmail.com>
References:  <BAY19-F30KFlNwwmZLy00021e70@hotmail.com>

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"n3rdBoy ." <destroyingculture@hotmail.com> wrote:
> hello,
>         I am having some problems with kdm or kde. I have edited /etc/ttys 
> so that kdm starts when the machine boots. When I log in nothing happens, 
> the login screen is just reloaded. I get the same results when I log in 
> using the default and failsafe profiles. I have edited the following files 
> as per the freeBSD handbok;
>       /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession.
>       /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0
>       /etc/ttys/
> any help would be great.

Have you looked through the log files in /var/log to see if there is any
information as to what's going wrong?

If you disable KDM, are you able to start KDE by logging in and issuing
"startx"?

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com



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