Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 09:39:42 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz> To: Louis LeBlanc <leblanc+freebsd@acadia.ne.mediaone.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86 wierdness Message-ID: <20010808093942.B38018@itouchnz.itouch> In-Reply-To: <20010807173144.A1531@acadia.ne.mediaone.net>; from leblanc%2Bfreebsd@acadia.ne.mediaone.net on Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 05:31:45PM -0400 References: <20010806181635.A3544@acadia.ne.mediaone.net> <5622162137.20010806152720@dsl-only.net> <4gwv4gyehk.v4g@localhost.localdomain> <20010807173144.A1531@acadia.ne.mediaone.net>
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On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 05:31:45PM -0400, Louis LeBlanc wrote:
> Ok, I got XFree86-4 installed from the ports. Then, I brought down to
> single user mode, and brought back up to multiuser mode.
>
> Immediately, getty started complaining that xdm was hitting tty8 too
> quickly, and went to sleep for 30 seconds. 6 times. It never came up
> to xdm.
>
> I went to /etc/ttys and commented out the line saying to turn on xdm.
> Back to single user, then back to multi again. No good.
>
> What the heck did I do wrong? I told the configure process to install
> xdm, but that is the only thing out of the ordinary. Any help is
> apprecated.
When you install a new version of X, the first thing to do is to see
whether 'startx' comes up properly. If that does, *then* you uncomment
the line for xdm.
So. What does the output of startx say? Does it come up at all?
--
Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
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