From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 3 7:31:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from w3.brgkepler.asn-graz.ac.at (unknown [193.171.5.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF49A37B4CF for ; Fri, 3 Nov 2000 07:31:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from w3.brgkepler.asn-graz.ac.at (sperber@L0820P29.dipool.highway.telekom.at [62.46.166.125]) by w3.brgkepler.asn-graz.ac.at (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA25200; Fri, 3 Nov 2000 15:17:56 +0100 Message-ID: <3A02E77D.40022C1D@w3.brgkepler.asn-graz.ac.at> Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 16:27:41 +0000 From: Sperber X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Denault Cc: Artashes Hovasapyan , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG well when u have it in etc/ttys it always restarts - whatever u do but with a startscript u could kill it... so it's just a small difference... Doug Denault wrote: > When I was getting help configuring a laptop, I ended up with a startup > script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d. Is there any practical difference in doing > it this way? > > Laptop is 3.5 + PAO but the /etc/ttys entry is present. > > On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Sperber wrote: > > > Artashes Hovasapyan wrote: > > > > > Hello! > > > Can You tell me how to boot machine > > > directly in graphical mode, i.e. > > > graphical logon screen. > > > My OS is FreeBSD4.1-Release. > > > > have a look in your /etc/ttys > > there is a tty defined for xdm - but it is turned off > > turn it on and it should work > > (u should configure xdm before that) > > > > > > > > > > > ===== > > > Best regards, > > > Artashes Hovasapyan > > > > > > > good luck - sperber > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message