From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 3 7:19:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from peloton.runet.edu (peloton.runet.edu [137.45.96.205]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E3EB3DC9 for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2000 07:19:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (brett@localhost) by peloton.runet.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA29160; Thu, 3 Feb 2000 10:19:44 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from brett@peloton.runet.edu) Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 10:19:44 -0500 (EST) From: Brett Taylor To: R Joseph Wright Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: starting X when booting In-Reply-To: <3899112B.DA1114F4@nwlink.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, R Joseph Wright wrote: Sorry for the message I just sent - should have read far enough forward to see this one! :-) > Now, I've got it working so it'll start kdm after it boots, but when I > enter my login, I get a basically blank screen with a band of colors > at the top. Then, after about 3 seconds, it takes me back to kdm. I > tried using xdm as well, with the same result. Do you have an executable .xsession file in your home directory that looks something like: ssh-agent exec wmaker In your case since you're using KDE you should move wmaker out and replace it w/ kwm or whatever it is. :-) To know for sure if this is the problem, check your .xsession-errors file in your home directory. I'm pretty sure this is the problem however. > Another question: /etc/ttys has the line > ttyv10 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm off insecure > I understand this has to do with assigning a virtual terminal to X, but > what else does all this do? If I'm using kdm, would I put it in there > instead of xdm? Starts up X on ttyv10. :-) If you want to use kdm, replace xdm w/ kdm and off you'll go. Read xdm(1) to see about the -nodaemon switch and man ttys(5) for the rest. Brett ***************************************************** Dr. Brett Taylor brett@peloton.runet.edu * Dept of Chem and Physics * Curie 39A (540) 831-6147 * Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics * Walker 234 (540) 831-5410 * ***************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message