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From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.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"?

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Bill Moran
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