From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 9 8:12:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from riker.skynet.be (riker.skynet.be [195.238.3.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF78937B416 for ; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 08:12:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from skynet.be (dialup603.namur.skynet.be [195.238.28.27]) by riker.skynet.be (8.11.6/8.11.6/Skynet-OUT-2.16) with ESMTP id fB9GCoY23939; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 17:12:51 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from ) Message-ID: <3C138D81.80001@skynet.be> Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2001 17:12:49 +0100 From: Raf Schietekat Reply-To: Raf_Schietekat@ieee.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011019 Netscape6/6.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: kdm op 4.4-R Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed 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 Dear experts, (I'm new to FreeBSD, but used to run NEXTSTEP a while ago. I recently installed FreeBSD 4.4-R on an i386 system.) If I change /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm to /usr/local/bin/kdmdesktop, I get an ordinary shell with messages like (date omitted): "desktop init: getty repeating too quickly on port /dev/ttyv8, sleeping 30 secs" What do I have to do to get kdm running? I don't find anything in the provided KDE documentation. I also can't run kcontrol from a terminal after I've become root (in any environment), nor does Control Center>System>Login Manager>Modify>Run as root succeed, nor does Clock>Adjust Date & Time>Run as root ("Conversation with su failed.", "BAD SU rfschtkt to root on /dev/ttyp6"). Help? Raf Schietekat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message