From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 28 00:51:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA29573 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 28 Apr 1997 00:51:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA29551 for ; Mon, 28 Apr 1997 00:51:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA03015 for hackers@FreeBSD.org; Mon, 28 Apr 1997 09:51:31 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA03365; Mon, 28 Apr 1997 09:48:19 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970428094819.ZS03579@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 09:48:19 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: xdm in /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d problem References: <19970427203420.55698@hw.nl> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <19970427203420.55698@hw.nl>; from Peter Korsten on Apr 27, 1997 20:34:20 +0200 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Peter Korsten wrote: > For the normal daemons, this works OK, but putting xdm in the X11 > rc directory turned out to be a Bad Idea. What seems to happen, is > that xdm initializes and starts X, but after that, the vty's are > initilized. As other people suggested, start it from /etc/ttys (which i consider a hack as long as nobody implemented the `window system' mode for ttys(5)), alternatively, edit your /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers file, and add ``vt04'' to the server line. This turns off the auto- probing. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)