From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 29 10: 8: 4 2002 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 4D5BB37B400 for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 10:08:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ramiel.volker.de (pD900DFFC.dip.t-dialin.net [217.0.223.252]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53DDA43E3B for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 10:08:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@secspace.de) Received: from astarte.volker.de (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ramiel.volker.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g6TH7sc02560; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 19:07:55 +0200 Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 19:07:54 +0200 From: Volker Kindermann To: "Richard E. Hawkins" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xf86cfg gives file letting startx work, but not xdm Message-Id: <20020729190754.08b77f17.freebsd@secspace.de> In-Reply-To: <200207291659.g6TGxmtT013977@fac13.ds.psu.edu> References: <200207291659.g6TGxmtT013977@fac13.ds.psu.edu> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.1 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 hawk, > startx works for root, but xdm doesn't work--it kills the server every > > few seconds before the login widget appears (the mouse works). do you have a /root/.xinitrc File? I think so. But do you have a /root/.xsession File? I don't think so. Copy your /root/.xinitrc to /root/.xsession and chmod it to 600. Have a look in .xsession. The last command (mostly the window-manager must start with "exec" (without the ""). If this don't work either, post your ~/.xsession file here. Hope that helps -volker To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message