Gentoo's inittab might be a bit different, but for me I changed this in
my /etc/inittab:

x:5:respawn:/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon

to

x:5:once:/bin/su USERNAME -l -c "/bin/bash --login -c startx >/dev/null 2>&1"

-steve



On 22:04 Tue 08 Jul, Elizabeth Dodd wrote:
>
>
>I'm trying this script
>http://doc.freevo.org/BootFreevo#Boot directly into Freevo: Using GDM
>
>and i have got my user starting freevo automatically
>but i don't have autologin
>i am still being asked for name and password
>
>
>this is on gentoo
>does anyone have any ideas on how i could get gdm to log me in automatically?
>i've come to the conclusion that xdm just will not do this
>
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