From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 26 12:51: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n37.san.rr.com (dt051n37.san.rr.com [204.210.32.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E1DC37B479 for ; Sun, 26 Nov 2000 12:51:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from FreeBSD.org (Studded@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n37.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA06514; Sun, 26 Nov 2000 12:49:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DougB@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <3A217773.C0813714@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 12:49:55 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Otter Cc: Joe McGuckin , questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: XDM & FreeBSD ? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Otter wrote: > > Joe, > That all depends on your versions of FreeBSD and XFree86. In > 4.2-RELEASE and using XF86-4.0.1_8 (I'd guess 3.3.6 to be about the > same requirements), the only thing you need to do is edit /etc/ttys > (assuming you want xdm to start at boot, otherwise, just type "xdm" at > the prompt). Anything prior to that, I've found also requires a tweak > of xdm-config. I use wdm, but it works just the same for setup > (xdm/wdm/kdm/etc). In /etc/ttys, change the one line to look like > mine: > > ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/bin/wdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure > > Of course, you'll need to reinit/reboot to get that to take effect. No, you don't have to reboot. Just 'kill -1 1' to get init to reread that file. Doug -- So what I want to know is, where does the RED brick road go? Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message