From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 7 20:18:51 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD5FD16A4CE for ; Sun, 7 Nov 2004 20:18:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: from chello084114137224.1.15.vie.surfer.at (chello084114137224.1.15.vie.surfer.at [84.114.137.224]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 66EFC43D2F for ; Sun, 7 Nov 2004 20:18:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from 4711@chello.at) Received: (qmail 27180 invoked from network); 7 Nov 2004 20:18:48 -0000 Received: from matrix010.matrix.net (192.168.123.10) by ns.matrix.net with SMTP; 7 Nov 2004 20:18:48 -0000 From: Christian Hiris <4711@chello.at> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 21:18:31 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <418D09BF.80107@yahoo.com> <200411062034.44451.4711@chello.at> <418E651C.7080804@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <418E651C.7080804@yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200411072118.47529.4711@chello.at> cc: Lloyd Hayes Subject: Re: Xorg Log-In X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 20:18:51 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 07 November 2004 19:10, Lloyd Hayes wrote: > Any editing that I try to do beyond the Xorg -configure leads to 'User" > and "Password" with it not accepting my system passwords. I searched for > ".xinitrc" and ".xsession" and nothing showed up. I read in the FreeBSD > handbook about creating ".xsessions". Following the exact directions > listed, I got no such file or directory after: > echo "#!/bin/sh" > -/.xsession ^^^ This should be ~/.xsession, not -/.xsession Ok I tried a setup on one of my machines to verify if gnome+xdm works: Log-in as user and do: > echo "#!/bin/sh" > ~/.xsession > echo "exec gnome-session" >> ~/.xsession > chmod +x ~/.xsession Log in as root and do: # ee /etc/ttys change ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm off secure to ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure Reboot the machine: * Xdm login-screen shows up. * Log-in as user. * The Gnome desktop should start up. Took me 1 minute and gnome was up and running. I'm using 5.3-STABLE #0: Mon Nov 1 06:38:37 CET / xorg-clients-6.7.0_4 / gnome-session-2.6.2. > > This was version 5.3 > Xorg is brand new, and there only seems to be a few lines of > documentation concerning it. I'm new to this whole thing, and having a > difficult time making sense of many things in the UNIX world. There is > more documentation about version 5.2.1 then 5.3. I'm in the process of > removing 5.3 and putting 5.2.1 back on here. And I think that I'll keep > XFree86 on it. If things don't work show us your logs and config-files: ~/.xsession-errors /var/log/0.log /var/log/Xorg.0.log xorg.conf ~/.xsession /etc/ttys - -- Christian Hiris <4711@chello.at> | OpenPGP KeyID 0x3BCA53BE OpenPGP-Key at hkp://wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net and http://pgp.mit.edu -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBjoMn09WjGjvKU74RAq4ZAJ9yG16KB5i+d7cM2ReAJ4+tSrrgEQCfWQkx w/0kvaNfo18aZD2Km8Ld4Tg= =1ucY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----