Craig Taylor wrote: > > you're right, I just meant that I only have problems with the xdm and > not using startx. I set xdm to start when I bootup, and it doesn't work > for me, if I kill those processes and login through the terminal as root > and run startx, then x will start up fine for me. I'm just stuck as to > why the xdm, after approving my login (no error) can't start my > enlightenment, or gnome, and keeps restarting x (repeating the login > session over and over, with the error messages in my .xsession-errors).
OK, I went back thru this thread and saw that you're running FreeBSD 4.4 and XFree86 4.1.0. I know that stuff. We're gonna make this thing work right. First, we need to look at the line in /etc/ttys that starts xdm. It should have "-nodaemon" and it might have a "-config /path/to/xdm-config". If it doesn't have the -config option, then the default is /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-config. On my 4.1.0 system, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm is a symlink to /etc/X11/xdm. Is yours? I know this is new, I think it might have come from the XFree86 4.1.0 port/package, or it might be new with FreeBSD 4.4. I used to just copy /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm to /etc/xdm and customize it there, and put the -config option in /etc/ttys. Looks like something similar has finally become standard FreeBSD practice. -- Remember, more computing power was thrown away last week than existed in the world in 1982. -- http://www.tom.womack.net/computing/prices.html _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
