From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 5 18:11:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail30.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail30.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.254.60.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DA8C37B403 for ; Fri, 5 Oct 2001 18:11:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sophia ([24.23.172.98]) by femail30.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with SMTP id <20011006011149.JFQV2056.femail30.sdc1.sfba.home.com@sophia> for ; Fri, 5 Oct 2001 18:11:49 -0700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: James E.Hall To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: 2 q's: X and console Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 21:14:08 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01100521140800.01252@sophia> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 Hello.=20 1) I recently installed FreeBSD and I can't seem to get X to start. I=20 tried everything in the Handbook... I added an entry to /etc/ttys and I=20 wrote a shell script to start up xdm, trying it first in rc.local and the= n=20 with rc.d. When I enable xdm in /etc/ttys xdm WILL start... but nothing=20 happens. The process shows up but I don't get the graphical login. I=20 actually don't want the graphical login, but I will live with it if this = is=20 the only way to get X to start with a secure setting. The process will no= t=20 start when I use rc.local, but it will with rc.d. However, when I use thi= s=20 approach xdm blanks my screen, trying to pop up the graphical display. Bu= t=20 it cannot. Control is then passed back to the console. After doing the=20 above, I try to start my X-session with 'startx'. I get the error (when=20 root): "xf860penConsole: KDENABIO failed (Operation not permitted)." This= =20 is the error that I was trying to avoid by starting xdm in the first plac= e.=20 If I log in as a regular user, I get the error:=20 "_XSERVTransSocketUNIXCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: ...server already running" Any suggestions? One thought of mine is that it may not be starting becau= se=20 my XF86 setup is wrong... when I went through the graphical setup program= =20 the last screen started flashing REALLY fast... the display looked fine,=20 otherwise, but.... I do have the specs for my card and monitor, so it=20 SHOULD have been okay. 2) Is there any way to make the console look nicer? I really don't mind t= he=20 comand line as long as the screen isn't an awful shade of grey, and the=20 font isn't so big. With Slackware 7.1 the setup program detected that I=20 could use a nice screen buffer and setup the OS to use it... it was nice:= =20 black screen and small crystal clear type. Is there anyway to get this sa= me=20 effect with FreeBSD?=20 Thanks in advance, - James To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message