Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 15:10:21 -0400 From: "Bob M." <bob.middaugh@comcast.net> To: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange X problem Message-ID: <1160161821.15158.5.camel@freebsd> In-Reply-To: <02E81D04083E467F87B83934@utd59514.utdallas.edu> References: <D6F6B2276E4C5AE49B0EFC48@utd59514.utdallas.edu> <200610060052.13580.bob@tania.servebbs.org> <1EB8FFB8DA481D0FC7FFB4A7@paul-schmehls-powerbook59.local> <17702.19564.237561.874594@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <02E81D04083E467F87B83934@utd59514.utdallas.edu>
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On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 12:05 -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: > --On Friday, October 06, 2006 08:30:36 -0400 Robert Huff > <roberthuff@rcn.com> wrote: > > > > > Paul Schmehl writes: > > > >> Not really. I want X to start *without* requiring a console > >> login and prompt me for a login in the gui, just like my > >> workstation does. > > > > The traditional answer is to put an entry in /etc/ttys. (See > > the man page for details.) > > > Therein lies the problem. There *is* an entry in /etc/ttys: > ttyv8 "/usr/local/bin/kdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure > > Guess I'll just start double-checking everything. Maybe there's a typo > somewhere. Is your path to kdm correct? I've never used KDE, so I don't know for sure, but that entry in /etc/ttys is all you should need. Bob
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