From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 6 11:06:28 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77FDD16A4CE for ; Thu, 6 Nov 2003 11:06:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from zeus.acuson.com (ac17860.acuson.com [157.226.71.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BFBB43FB1 for ; Thu, 6 Nov 2003 11:06:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DavidJohnson@Siemens.com) Received: from mvaexch02 ([157.226.230.209]:2539 helo=mvaexch02.acuson.com) by zeus.acuson.com with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 1AHpSY-00032j-5H; Thu, 06 Nov 2003 11:06:22 -0800 Received: by mvaexch02.acuson.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2657.72) id ; Thu, 6 Nov 2003 11:02:08 -0800 Received: from dhcp-46-145.acuson.com ([157.226.46.145]) by mvaexch01.acuson.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2657.72) id VDNNAASS; Thu, 6 Nov 2003 11:01:15 -0800 From: Johnson David To: Preston Crawford , freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Organization: Siemens Medical Systems Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 11:04:44 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <9b954dcdc7ba4dd793aa4e180d311cf5.me@prestoncrawford.com> In-Reply-To: <9b954dcdc7ba4dd793aa4e180d311cf5.me@prestoncrawford.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200311061104.44908.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *1AHpSY-00032j-5H*0kyV7PiiBjA* Subject: Re: Setting up X on FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 19:06:28 -0000 On Thursday 06 November 2003 10:41 am, Preston Crawford wrote: > When I did this (made my own config file) "startx" fired up without > problems, except for a mouse that bounced directly to the upper right > corner and stayed there for some reason. And then, when I fired up > gdm I got an error that said "gdm is already running". Weird. When I > fired up KDM it came up right. But then it got stuck after I logged > in. The mouse device should be set to /dev/sysmouse, after you've configured the moue in sysinstall. If you set it to something else, it will work, but might conflict with the sysmouse driver if you have that on. (sysmouse is the FreeBSD equivalent to GPM). GDM has a "bug" so you can't start it from ttys, but need a separate startup script. See the file /usr/ports/x11/gdm2/pkg-message, for more information. Not sure why KDM is giving you problems. Make sure the command to start it up has the right parameters. There's some more info on xdm login in the FAQ. David