From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 1 10:52:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smithers.stomped.com (smithers.stomped.com [216.17.56.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4DF0237B407 for ; Sun, 1 Jul 2001 10:52:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from malhavoc@stomped.com) Received: (qmail 92295 invoked by uid 1041); 1 Jul 2001 17:52:11 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 1 Jul 2001 17:52:11 -0000 Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2001 12:52:11 -0500 (CDT) From: Jason Nugent To: Louis LeBlanc Cc: Subject: Re: How to to boot directly into X from Freebsd 4.0 In-Reply-To: <20010701132027.B32402@acadia.ne.mediaone.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Sun, 1 Jul 2001 at 12:51pm, Louis LeBlanc thought about > On 06/29/01 09:24 PM, William Richard sat at the `puter and typed: > > On Thursday 28 June 2001 16:07, festus wrote: > > > > > Can someone give an idea of the files I need to tweak to get this > > > working? > > > > Some miserable bastard wrote an article last year on setting up XDM, which is > > at Daemon News: > > > > http://www.daemonnews.org/200001/xdm.html > > > > HTH. > > > > -- > > Cheers, > > William Richard > > wdr@tdl.com > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > Very helpful! Unfortunately it misses one thing. The article tells > you to add a line in /etc/rc.local, which doesn't seem to exist on > 4.3-STABLE. For the final detail on getting xdm to start, look at the > manual at > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-xdm.html > Particularly section 12.5.2. There is one field on one line that must > change from 'off' to 'on'. Lou, You can create this file if you want. It just doesn't come with FreeBSD by default. It *does* get read if present, though. HTH, Jason ---------------------- Jason Nugent Aka MalHavoc Server Programmer and Administrator S T O M P E D . C O M For PGP public key: http://malhavoc.stomped.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message