From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 18 05:33:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA03495 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 18 Jan 1998 02:30:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA03365 for ; Sun, 18 Jan 1998 02:29:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA06409; Sat, 17 Jan 1998 22:44:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 22:44:50 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "Kevin M. Young" cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help with Getting X Windows Loaded? In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19980117033357.0090be20@mail.vt.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Sat, 17 Jan 1998, Kevin M. Young wrote: > I recently purchased FreeBSD 2.2.5 on CDROM. I installed the sytem today > on my personal computer which I use for school. Along with FreeBSD, I have > two other operating systems, Win 95 and Win NT. Win 95 is on the same > physical hardrive as FreeBSD (the c: drive). I have zero problems with the > boot manager and loading any of the operating systems. I am able to get to > FreeBSD just fine. Here is what I need help with now. > > I can't get into X Windows. I would like to configure FreeBSD to > automatically bring up the XWindows log on. I have tried for hours tonight > to get it configured to do this, but with no avail. I would appreciate > your assistance on how to configure FREEBSD to do this. Thank you. I start xdm in /etc/rc.local. You can also start it in /etc/ttys with the -nodaemon flag. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major