From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 17 11:55:46 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 2A10C37B401 for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 11:55:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web13505.mail.yahoo.com (web13505.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.175.84]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BF28A43E6E for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 11:55:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thief_grr@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20021017185544.20280.qmail@web13505.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [195.167.127.229] by web13505.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 11:55:44 PDT Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 11:55:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Thanos Tsouanas Subject: Re: X problems, please advise helpless newbie To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: 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 > > 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. > i have followed the instructions on the HB and they didnt work, thats why i came up with the insecure method... startx gives similar errors to the ones mentioned in the original msg. any ideas why? __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More http://faith.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message