From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 5 17: 2:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C4591551B for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 17:02:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sprice@hiwaay.net) Received: from localhost (sprice@localhost) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.3/8.9.0) with ESMTP id TAA22757; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 19:00:55 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 19:00:55 -0600 (CST) From: Steve Price To: Gustavo Rios Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X11 In-Reply-To: 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 You have two choices at least. Recompile X and answer no to the question about whether you want PAM support or not. Or add a line like this to /etc/pam.conf. xserver auth sufficient pam_permit.so no_use You will need to put it after all the 'login' entries but before the 'other' entries. On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Gustavo Rios wrote: # Hi folks! # i am trying to get X working but all i get is trouble, when i type startx # into the console i have this: # # etosha# startx # # Authentication failed - cannot start X server. # Perhaps you do not have console ownership?^Cxinit: unexpected signal 2 # # /var/log/messages show me this: # Jan 5 22:49:19 etosha Xwrapper: no modules loaded for `xserver' service # # # I am running X 3.3.5! May you help me with this ? # My uname -a output is: # # FreeBSD etosha 3.4-STABLE FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE #0: Wed Jan 5 13:43:01 EDT # 2000 root@etosha:/usr/src/sys/compile/ETOSHA i386 # # # Thank you for your time and cooperation. # best regards, # Gustavo Rios # # # -- # The thing i like most about Windows is .... # You can download FreeBSD with it! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message