From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 6 6:43:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fedex.is.co.za (fedex.is.co.za [196.4.160.243]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1165837B405 for ; Sat, 6 Oct 2001 06:43:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from c1-pta-98.dial-up.net (c1-pta-98.dial-up.net [196.34.158.98]) by fedex.is.co.za (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA40886; Sat, 6 Oct 2001 15:43:07 +0200 (SAST) Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2001 15:45:21 +0200 (SAST) From: The Psychotic Viper X-X-Sender: To: "James E.Hall" Cc: Subject: Re: 2 q's: X and console In-Reply-To: <01100521140800.01252@sophia> Message-ID: <20011006153635.R56851-100000@lucifer.fuzion.ath.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Hi, On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, James E.Hall wrote: > 1) I recently installed FreeBSD and I can't seem to get X to start. I > tried everything in the Handbook... I added an entry to /etc/ttys and I > wrote a shell script to start up xdm, trying it first in rc.local and then > with rc.d. When I enable xdm in /etc/ttys xdm WILL start... but nothing > happens. The process shows up but I don't get the graphical login. I > actually don't want the graphical login, but I will live with it if this is > the only way to get X to start with a secure setting. The process will not > start when I use rc.local, but it will with rc.d. However, when I use this > approach xdm blanks my screen, trying to pop up the graphical display. But > it cannot. Control is then passed back to the console. After doing the > above, I try to start my X-session with 'startx'. I get the error (when > root): "xf860penConsole: KDENABIO failed (Operation not permitted)." This > is the error that I was trying to avoid by starting xdm in the first place. > If I log in as a regular user, I get the error: > "_XSERVTransSocketUNIXCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed > _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: ...server already running" > Any suggestions? One thought of mine is that it may not be starting because > my XF86 setup is wrong... when I went through the graphical setup program > the last screen started flashing REALLY fast... the display looked fine, > otherwise, but.... I do have the specs for my card and monitor, so it > SHOULD have been okay. That error itself is indicative of a kenelel_securelevel enabled on your system, X will NOT run on a system with a secure level higher than -1 (least not on any system I have had, read somewhere of someone else running at 0 but didnt work for me). I suggest changing changing the following value kern_securelevel to -1, and then try . > 2) Is there any way to make the console look nicer? I really don't mind the > comand line as long as the screen isn't an awful shade of grey, and the > font isn't so big. With Slackware 7.1 the setup program detected that I > could use a nice screen buffer and setup the OS to use it... it was nice: > black screen and small crystal clear type. Is there anyway to get this same > effect with FreeBSD? try man vidcontrol , it can help u change console font size and other properties just takes some playing around to find out just what you like. Also you could try one of those bash-environment systems, although personally I prefer just changing my prompt to a bold not too outrageous colour and enabling colour directory listing. HTH PsyV To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message