On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 11:00:43PM -0500, Anant wrote:
> FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE
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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On
> Behalf Of Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
> Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 4:58 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Newbie]XDM Problems
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>
> > I'm having some problems with XDM. For some reason, I can only
> > run it once. If I exit from it through Ctrl+Alt+F1, and then type
> > xdm at the prompt, nothing happens. It is as though I had just
> > pressed enter. When I type startx, it says that the server is
> already
> > running because of the lock file. Is there supposed to be a more
> > appropriate way for exiting xdm? Thanks
>
> what distro are you using?
>
> Carl Soderstrom
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You may have xdm configured to startup on boot. Probably in
/etc/rc.conf. I believe you also have to set it to a virtual terminal in
/etc/ttys. Do you want to have xdm come up when you boot up, or do you
want to log in to the console and use X as needed?
Ian
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