From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 14 22: 6: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tierzero.apana.org.au (sa.apana.org.au [203.14.158.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E2B637B41A for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 22:05:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from BAPhD.gihon.org.au (dialup-13.pasa.apana.org.au [203.14.158.142]) by tierzero.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA16883; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 16:35:49 +1030 (CST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian Astill Reply-To: bastill@sa.apana.org.au To: Steve Wingate Subject: Re: No X for user - RTFM Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 16:41:28 +1030 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <02011509533600.01039@BAPhD.gihon.org.au> <20020114153557.570daab5.steve@velosystems.net> In-Reply-To: <20020114153557.570daab5.steve@velosystems.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <02011516412801.01288@BAPhD.gihon.org.au> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday 15 January 2002 10:05, Steve Wingate wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 09:53:36 +1030 > > "Brian Astill" wrote: > > I have run into the familiar "XF86OpenConsole ...." error when > > trying to enter X as a user. > > So RTFM - in particular the FAQ. > > In /etc/ttys, I found: > > ttyv8. "usr/X11R6/bin/xdm - nodaemon". xterm. off secure > > and changed off to on. > > Those periods in that xdm line don't belong so I don't know where you > got those from. From the file itself - I was most particular about being exact. Maybe all I have to is remove those periods? Other lines have them in similar places, though. > Otherwise, you can always install xwrapper so users > can start X11 from a command prompt. Should be in ports. I have Xwrapper in my system. When I type "Xwrapper" I get details about usage, none of which seem to relate to starting an X session. -- Regards, Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message