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On Wednesday 28 September 2005 03:41, Eric Murphy wrote:
> I have gdm set in /etc/ttys instead of xdm... 

I don't use GDM and I don't know if this is the cause of the problem, but:

From: /usr/ports/UPDATING

20050411:
  AFFECTS: users of x11/gdm
  AUTHOR: kwm@FreeBSD.org

  GDM now installs a rcNG script for starting the gdm daemon.
  To enable that gdm starts a boot time, add the following to /etc/rc.conf:

  gdm_enable="YES"