From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 25 02:21:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA03317 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 02:21:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.116.240]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA03312 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 02:21:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.31.2]) by Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (RBI-Z-5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id LAA05346; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 11:21:19 +0100 (MET) Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.8.5/8.6.9) id LAA07934; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 11:32:07 +0100 (MET) From: Christoph Kukulies Message-Id: <199703251032.LAA07934@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Subject: Re: xdm doesn't do anything In-Reply-To: from random junk at "Mar 24, 97 04:07:51 pm" To: jsd@gamespot.com (random junk) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 11:32:06 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: Christoph Kukulies X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > i'm feeling quite stupid. i've tried playing with /etc/rc.local. i've tried > playing with /etc/ttys. i can't make xdm do anything! it just never ever > shows its face, no matter how i invoke it. i can see it running with ps, but > it never takes over my screen. i'm not trying to do anything fancy, just a > simple single-user workstation scenario. Do you have a spare ttyvx reserved? /etc/ttys should have something like this (note the one 'off' vty): console none unknown off secure # ttyv0 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure # Virtual terminals ttyv1 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure ttyv2 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure ttyv3 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 off secure > > i'm using the Xinside accelerated X server, if that makes a difference... > > -j- > -- Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de