From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 17 10:56: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B28537B401 for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 10:56:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp-send.myrealbox.com (smtp-send.myrealbox.com [192.108.102.143]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCAB943E65 for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 10:56:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jud@myrealbox.com) Received: from jud [12.33.164.6] by myrealbox.com with NetMail ModWeb Module; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 13:55:49 -0400 Subject: Re: X problems, please advise helpless newbie From: "Jud" To: thief_grr@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 13:55:49 -0400 X-Mailer: NetMail ModWeb Module X-Sender: jud MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <1034877349.2e2b2920jud@myrealbox.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----Original Message----- From: Thanos Tsouanas To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 10:33:07 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: X problems, please advise helpless newbie wud it be better to comment out all the ttyv8 lines and start XFree86 as a = normal user, and then start windowmaker? i really cant make xdm to work... any suggestions? ********************************************* ********************************************* Yes - it's often easier to go with a .xinitrc file and type "startx" at the login prompt. There's a good article by Dru Lavigne on how to set this up: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/21/FreeBSD_Basics.html Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message