Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:22:47 +0300 From: Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr@gmail.com> To: email <email@guice.ath.cx> Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: INCOMPLETE or INCORRECT procedure posted in the FreeBSD Handbook Message-ID: <488DD637.2080705@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <488DD390.6080902@guice.ath.cx> References: <488DAE3C.1020807@guice.ath.cx> <488DBD97.2030305@gmail.com> <488DC0E6.4020008@guice.ath.cx> <488DC1D3.3060104@gmail.com> <488DD390.6080902@guice.ath.cx>
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email wrote: > Manolis Kiagias wrote: >> email wrote: >>> Manolis Kiagias wrote: >>>> email wrote: >>>>> 5.7.3.1 The KDE Display Manager >>>>> >>>>> Following the above causes problems. Please update or omit that >>>>> passage because it doesn't work as intended. Try it yourself on a >>>>> clean system and I think you'll agree. If the above FreeBSD >>>>> Handbook section has been corrected since 07/28/2008 07:31EDT. >>>>> then please disregard this. >>>> >>>> Are you sure about this? What kind of "problems"? I haven't used >>>> KDE in a while, but starting kdm from /etc/ttys has always been the >>>> standard method. In fact, you can start other login managers (i.e. >>>> slim) from there. If anyone else has compiled KDE recently, please >>>> report if kdm works as described. >>> following the above, step by step, does offer the kdm however after >>> loging in only the X server is started and you are unable to do >>> anything within the started environment. Following the above, on a >>> clean system will not start kde or gnome without further >>> configuration whereas kde/gnome will start using startx with the >>> correct entires in ~/.initrc. >>> >>> Going for breakfast BB in 30-mins >> >> I will try it on a test system later today, and if necessary I will >> create a patch for the handbook section. Thanks. > > I installed 6.3_RELEASE (ALL doc's, src, binaries EVERY-thing) from an > i386 iso thereafter using pkg_add -r to install kde3.5.8 and > gnome2.20.1. Nothing exotic was done/installed. <-- That's what I > mean when I say a clean install. I hope this helps. > All right - I am doing an installation from ports (default options) and will post results as soon as available. It will take some time. P.S. I've put the doc@ list back on this
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