Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2006 00:51:07 +1000 (EST) From: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> To: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange X problem Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1061008004107.26656A-100000@gaia.nimnet.asn.au> In-Reply-To: <20061007051305.F078B16A4E8@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Sat, 7 Oct 2006 freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org wrote: > Message: 26 > Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 19:36:32 -0500 > From: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> > --On October 6, 2006 5:23:45 PM -0700 backyard > <backyard1454-bsd@yahoo.com> 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 look at it this afternoon, and that's what the > problem was. I wasn't looking closely enough at that line. Maybe you were looking _too_ closely at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11-wm.html which I was browsing just before seeing your thread, that indeed says: To enable kdm, the ttyv8 entry in /etc/ttys has to be adapted. The line should look as follows: ttyv8 "/usr/local/bin/kdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure Cheers, Ian
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