From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 24 23:33:35 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 C6DB016A420 for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 23:33:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.207]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3812243D45 for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 23:33:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id s10so311717wxc for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 15:33:34 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=k08UygDfcilo+/DkGgRLH2LmV/5qGWba1lrtnm8qE1EJXoacA7uKdH4ol6AbZjdR8Cobx7u6w36cJWn+28q4uwe4XbYA5jHboKTs+pUAlM9jzVeWdYR1c9ZiR+cLZUu5FTVoAZrpcQm6ee3MIotxQGg8zAjNWWC4A7DQn5Uht+8= Received: by 10.70.40.13 with SMTP id n13mr398150wxn; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 15:33:34 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.70.58.15 with HTTP; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 15:33:34 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 17:33:34 -0600 From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: "Wendell Anderson" In-Reply-To: <43FF8EBD.1050509@nac.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <43FF8EBD.1050509@nac.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: configuring KDE on FreeBSD 6.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 23:33:35 -0000 On 2/24/06, Wendell Anderson wrote: > I have successfully installed FreeBSD 6.0 with X.org and > KDE 3.4.3. > > When I execute "startx" the "tcm" windowing system, starts > up fine. However when I try starting KDE, I get x-server errors. > > I need help in configuring KDE to proper operation. > >From root issue: /usr/local/bin/kdm (I think there's where kdm installs to by default, you can probably get by with just typing kdm) or change the line in /etc/ttys: ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm off secure to something more like: ttyv8 "/usr/local/bin/kdm" xterm on secure which should start kde at boot. Note, the exact syntax of these escapes me, try: where kdm man kdm Also note, if you've installed user accounts with uids below 1000, I believe kde will not allow you to log in until you've edited the kdm config file, which I cannot recall where that lives. man kdm should answer that. -- --