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Date:      Thu, 19 Dec 2002 22:50:14 -0600
From:      Daniel Schrock <dschrock@speakeasy.net>
To:        Dmitrii PapaGeorgio <dmitrii@woh.rr.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: GDM question - anyone got it to work?
Message-ID:  <3E02A186.50302@speakeasy.net>
In-Reply-To: <M%wM9.343$%3.193060@twister.neo.rr.com>
References:  <M%wM9.343$%3.193060@twister.neo.rr.com>

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Dmitrii PapaGeorgio wrote:
> Running FreeBSD 4.7 - I configured etc/ttys to point to GDM but the 
> screen says it can't find the config file when it first boots. Am I 
> missing something here?
> 
> Thanks-
> 

yea, don't use /etc/ttys for this.

cd /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d
cp gdm.sh.sample gdm.sh
ls -la  #verify perms for executable

then start it up:  ./gdm.sh start

it will start at boot after this.

.daniel.schrock


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