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Subject: Starting XDM
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About 'when to start xdm', I've found that although I can't put it earlier than
/etc/ttys, this can be worked around by splitting /etc/rc into a section
which must run before xdm (mount FS's, swapon, run syslogd, run rc.i386, not
much else) which then runs /etc/rc.X in the background. Xdm then runs from ttys.
(/etc/rc.X has a sleep 10 at the start to give X time to get going) and then
/etc/rc.X does all the stuff that X doesn't need.