From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 8 19: 7:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (sirius-giga.rz.uni-ulm.de [134.60.241.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BA2837B4CF for ; Wed, 8 Nov 2000 19:07:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from lilith (lilith.wohnheim.uni-ulm.de [134.60.106.64]) by mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id EAA24282; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 04:07:13 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <001401c049fa$29327c40$4011a8c0@wohnheim.uniulm.de> From: "Siegbert Baude" To: "Otter" , , References: Subject: Re: newbie X vt question: Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 04:07:12 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, > }- how do I go about turning OFF any on parameters in the > }ttyv1-7, so that I may use X. and do I need to make these > }changes in /dev/ttys and /etc/ttys > if you're looking to use xfree86, go to the line which starts with > ttyv8 and change the "off" to "on". when you reboot, /etc/ttys will > call xdm to start up, prompting you with a graphical login. this can > also be substituted with kdm, wdm, etc once they are installed by the > superuser. if you should run into a snag, ctrl+alt+backspace should > kill the xdm login and drop you back to a command line prompt. Of course, you donīt need to reboot, just SIGHUP init :-0 Ciao Siegbert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message