Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 10:28:16 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot and MBR (Gnome) Message-ID: <403F7020.6000609@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <20040227120039.GC46716@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <88EB08D16800D34EA145D7DD2AA44998E64C@minnie.outland> <20040227120039.GC46716@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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Matthew Seaman wrote: >On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 01:11:28PM -0900, Mark Weisman wrote: > > > >>The second question I have, is can I put the command startx into my >>rc.conf file to have it boot directly into the x-server? Any help on >>these two would be awesome. Thanks. >> >> > > > > <snip> >If you're a Gnome user, there's a workalike program gdm(8) you might >want to use instead, and I believe the KDE stuff comes with (surprise, >surprise) kdm(8). Their documentation should tell you exactly what >you need to put into /etc/ttys in order to substitute them for xdm(8). > > Cheers, > > Matthew > > > I did this just last night; this seems to do it (and I was a bad boy, just hacked it w/o looking at the docs) .... <kadmin@archangel> [/home/kadmin][10:26] #cat /etc/ttys | grep gdm ttyv0 "/usr/X11R6/bin/gdm" cons25 on secure Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P.
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