Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 21:14:08 -0400 From: James E.Hall <paavaka@home.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: 2 q's: X and console Message-ID: <01100521140800.01252@sophia>
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Hello. 1) I recently installed FreeBSD and I can't seem to get X to start. I tried everything in the Handbook... I added an entry to /etc/ttys and I wrote a shell script to start up xdm, trying it first in rc.local and then with rc.d. When I enable xdm in /etc/ttys xdm WILL start... but nothing happens. The process shows up but I don't get the graphical login. I actually don't want the graphical login, but I will live with it if this is the only way to get X to start with a secure setting. The process will not start when I use rc.local, but it will with rc.d. However, when I use this approach xdm blanks my screen, trying to pop up the graphical display. But it cannot. Control is then passed back to the console. After doing the above, I try to start my X-session with 'startx'. I get the error (when root): "xf860penConsole: KDENABIO failed (Operation not permitted)." This is the error that I was trying to avoid by starting xdm in the first place. If I log in as a regular user, I get the error: "_XSERVTransSocketUNIXCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: ...server already running" Any suggestions? One thought of mine is that it may not be starting because my XF86 setup is wrong... when I went through the graphical setup program the last screen started flashing REALLY fast... the display looked fine, otherwise, but.... I do have the specs for my card and monitor, so it SHOULD have been okay. 2) Is there any way to make the console look nicer? I really don't mind the comand line as long as the screen isn't an awful shade of grey, and the font isn't so big. With Slackware 7.1 the setup program detected that I could use a nice screen buffer and setup the OS to use it... it was nice: black screen and small crystal clear type. Is there anyway to get this same effect with FreeBSD? Thanks in advance, - James To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the messagehelp
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