From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 13 00:45:19 2003 Return-Path: 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 5396D37B401 for ; Sun, 13 Apr 2003 00:45:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pfepc.post.tele.dk (pfepc.post.tele.dk [193.162.153.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C68443F93 for ; Sun, 13 Apr 2003 00:45:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd.nospam@mekanix.dk) Received: from frodo.my.domain (0x3ef34d54.albnxx2.adsl.tele.dk [62.243.77.84]) by pfepc.post.tele.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7B5F262A65; Sun, 13 Apr 2003 09:45:15 +0200 (CEST) From: Bjarne Wichmann Petersen To: Kan Cai , Abidoon Nadeem Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 09:45:24 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200304130945.24786.freebsd.nospam@mekanix.dk> cc: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Starting X Automatically X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 07:45:19 -0000 On Sunday 13 April 2003 08:36, Kan Cai wrote: > try change your /etc/ttys file. > > set tty8 (or 9, I am not using FreeBSD right now) from off to on, and > change the xdm to kdm (do not forget change the path) if you are using > KDE. Is it possible to put some sort of "intelligence" into this setup? Eg. if something i X/kdm is broken it would *stop* trying to start them? Sometimes I've got to do at hard-reset of my machine and boot into single-user and change /etc/ttys because something is broken but FBSD keeps trying to start kdm/X and hinders me to get to at console. Bjarne -- Homepage: http://www.mekanix.dk