> Troy Rau wrote: > > I have the FreeBSD 4.2 installed, and when I log in, it goes into the > Command line version fine. I can navigate around and do whatever, but > when I try and run the X86 GUI(xdm), it goes to a graphical login > screen and prompts to log in again. I enter the login and password, > or goes black for a second, back to the grey screen, and right back to > the login prompt. I can never get it to run. Any ideas?
xdm has to be run by root. It's normally run by init. Edit /etc/ttys (you have to be root), find the line that starts xdm and change the word "off" to "on". "kill -1 1" to get init to re-read /etc/ttys, and init will start xdm, and you'll be able to log in because xdm will have the permission to do that. Your text-mode terminals will still be there, just Ctl+Alt+F1, etc. Ctl+Alt+F9 gets back to X11. > > Troy -- 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
