From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 24 19:24:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA06553 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 19:24:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from light.pomona.edu (light.pomona.edu [134.173.72.79]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA06545 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 19:24:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (jadeite@localhost) by light.pomona.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA01881 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 19:24:30 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 19:24:29 -0800 (PST) From: jadeite To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xdm doesn't do anything In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk well... even if X for console isn't set up right for console, your machine should still respond to xdmcp requests from X terminals. i used to run AcceleratedX, after Xinstall you should just be able to do "startx" and it does something, with or without xdm On Mon, 24 Mar 1997, random junk wrote: > i'm feeling quite stupid. i've tried playing with /etc/rc.local. i've tried > playing with /etc/ttys. i can't make xdm do anything! it just never ever > shows its face, no matter how i invoke it. i can see it running with ps, but > it never takes over my screen. i'm not trying to do anything fancy, just a > simple single-user workstation scenario. > > i'm using the Xinside accelerated X server, if that makes a difference... > > -j- >