Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:11:07 +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: <61eeef060807282311o4347354ajf430de0867694b89@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <488DD637.2080705@gmail.com> References: <488DAE3C.1020807@guice.ath.cx> <488DBD97.2030305@gmail.com> <488DC0E6.4020008@guice.ath.cx> <488DC1D3.3060104@gmail.com> <488DD390.6080902@guice.ath.cx> <488DD637.2080705@gmail.com>
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On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 5:22 PM, Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > Having compiled xorg and KDE from ports, I am unable to recreate your problem. After modifying the line in /etc/ttys and kill -HUP 1, I get KDM and after login (without changing anything else from KDM Menu) I get a fully functional KDE desktop. Are you sure you haven't missed anything else in your process? In particular (although not strictly necessary), have you created an xorg.conf per Handbook's instructions?home | help
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