From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 7 11:30:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from midway.uchicago.edu (midway.uchicago.edu [128.135.12.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A245E37B422 for ; Fri, 7 Jun 2002 11:30:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Yggdrasil (adsl-68-20-18-9.dsl.chcgil.ameritech.net [68.20.18.9]) by midway.uchicago.edu (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g57IU5Nb013943; Fri, 7 Jun 2002 13:30:06 -0500 (CDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: David Syphers Reply-To: dsyphers@uchicago.edu To: doug Subject: Re: kde Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 13:30:04 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.4] Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200206071330.04945.dsyphers@uchicago.edu> 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 Friday 07 June 2002 12:26 pm, doug wrote: > Chapters 5.6 and 5.7 in the hand book will give you what you need. > > I use xdm rather than kdm if for no other reason than I use twm to install > and/or work on kde. You can also start [xk]dm out of /usr/local/etc/rc. > This has the advantage of being able to stop xdm. The details in the Handbook cover an old version of kdm (it remarks that things have changed in KDE 2.2, and we're now on KDE 3). I've tried changing "off" to "on" on the appropriate line in /etc/ttys, but I can't start either xdm with the default line nor kdm with "/usr/local/bin/kdm" as the command. In /var/log/xdm-errors I get ---- (EE) Unable to locate/open config file (EE) Error from xf86HandleConfigFile() Fatal server error: no screens found ---- I'm able to start kdm from the command line with no problems, so I don't see why it should complain about a config file. Any ideas? Thanks, -David -- Everyone who believes in telekinesis, raise my hand... Astronomy and Astrophysics Center The University of Chicago To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message