Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 13:58:55 -0700 From: Lloyd Hayes <lloyd545220-trucker@yahoo.com> To: Christian Hiris <4711@chello.at> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xorg Log-In Message-ID: <418E8C8F.9080304@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <200411072118.47529.4711@chello.at> References: <418D09BF.80107@yahoo.com> <200411062034.44451.4711@chello.at> <418E651C.7080804@yahoo.com> <200411072118.47529.4711@chello.at>
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Thanks for the effort!!!! It may be the version that I have. I downloaded version 5.3 a two or three months ago. I may have a testing version of 5.3. I'm not sure. I'll download a new image some other time. Lloyd Hayes Email: lloyd545220-trucker@yahoo.com URL: http://TalkingStaff.bravehost.com E-FAX Number: (208) 248-6590 Christian Hiris wrote: >-----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----- > > > >
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