From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 14 15:36: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.velosystems.net (cx144844-b.pv1.ca.home.com [24.9.137.174]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0582F37B404 for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 15:35:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from velosystems.net (jeeves [192.168.1.6]) by mail.velosystems.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 633A150783; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 15:35:57 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 15:35:57 -0800 From: Steve Wingate To: bastill@sa.apana.org.au Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No X for user - RTFM Message-Id: <20020114153557.570daab5.steve@velosystems.net> In-Reply-To: <02011509533600.01039@BAPhD.gihon.org.au> References: <02011509533600.01039@BAPhD.gihon.org.au> Organization: Velosystems X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd4.5) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 09:53:36 +1030 "Brian Astill" wrote: > I have run into the familiar "XF86OpenConsole ...." error when trying > to enter X as a user. > So RTFM - in particular the FAQ. > In /etc/ttys, I found: > ttyv8. "usr/X11R6/bin/xdm - nodaemon". xterm. off secure > and changed off to on. Those periods in that xdm line don't belong so I don't know where you got those from. Otherwise, you can always install xwrapper so users can start X11 from a command prompt. Should be in ports. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message