From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 17 11: 8:41 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 CDF4D37B401 for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 11:08:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (bgm-24-94-58-56.stny.rr.com [24.94.58.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C612043E65 for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 11:08:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from syborg@stny.rr.com) Received: by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix, from userid 507) id 2F3F24FC9F; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 14:05:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27D6A4A0E; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 14:05:03 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 14:05:03 -0400 (EDT) From: John Bleichert X-X-Sender: syborg@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org Reply-To: John Bleichert To: Thanos Tsouanas Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X problems, please advise helpless newbie In-Reply-To: <20021017173307.41507.qmail@web13507.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Thanos Tsouanas wrote: > Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 10:33:07 -0700 (PDT) > From: Thanos Tsouanas > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > 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? > There's a thorough HowTo on setting up a display manager (e.g. xdm, kdm, ...) here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-xdm.html I can't think of any reason why it won't work if you follow the instructions. Note that X *must* load properly for xdm to work properly. If you need to test and setup X first, use an xinitrc file, e.g.: $ echo "exec wmaker" > /home/user/.xinitrc and then try 'startx'. The Handbook page above should get you going with xdm. HTH - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message