From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 24 9: 8:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dazed.slacker.com (dazed.slacker.com [208.15.208.76]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 35B5C37B43C for ; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 09:08:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 63967 invoked by uid 1000); 24 Aug 2000 16:08:25 -0000 Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 11:08:25 -0500 From: David McNett To: Ken Berube Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: set up Message-ID: <20000824110825.A63663@dazed.slacker.com> Mail-Followup-To: Ken Berube , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <39A4F63B.84BAAE2E@dellnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <39A4F63B.84BAAE2E@dellnet.com>; from beruken@dellnet.com on Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 10:17:31AM +0000 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386 X-Distributed: Join the Effort! http://www.distributed.net/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 24-Aug-2000, Ken Berube wrote: > Now that I completely wiped out my c drive and no longer have any > windows files I got this damn program to install. The problem is I only > get a command prompt after login, no graphical interface. I loaded Gnome > and KDE any ideas? An alternative solution to Chad's suggestion is to edit the file /etc/ttys and change this line: ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm off secure to read: ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure Then, after you've saved that file, reboot. -- ________________________________________________________________________ |David McNett |To ensure privacy and data integrity this message has| |nugget@slacker.com|been encrypted using dual rounds of ROT-13 encryption| |Birmingham, AL USA|Please encrypt all important correspondence with PGP!| To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message