From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 29 12:53:50 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 E0ADD37B400 for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 12:53:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (fac13.ds.psu.edu [146.186.61.98]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB05543E31 for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 12:53:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fac13.ds.psu.edu (8.12.3/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g6TJrftT015343; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 15:53:41 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Message-Id: <200207291953.g6TJrftT015343@fac13.ds.psu.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Volker Kindermann Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xf86cfg gives file letting startx work, but not xdm--progress In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 29 Jul 2002 21:34:53 +0200." <20020729213453.1c9357c9.freebsd@secspace.de> From: dochawk@psu.edu Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 15:53:41 -0400 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 > > I've installed xwrapper, and can now use startx, but I still can't get > > > xdm itself running :( > have you tried to start xdm via /etc/ttys? There is a line prepared for > starting xdm. You have only to change the "off" to "on" for ttyv8. I usuall don't use that until I can run xdm successfully, as I've tended to have assorted editing to do. It does give me a slightly different behavior :) xdm still comes up blinking, and rather than killing it outright, "killall -9 xdm" leaves a functioning xserver with a working mouse (and nothing more) on console 8. What I have here is the "blinkies" that come when the config file uses the wrong server or invalid mode, and the server tries again and again to restart itself. The problem, though, is that startx is able to use the config file, and xdm isn't. I've redone the config file with xf86config instead of xf86cfg, to no avail. hawk -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message