Cool. I will try that tommorow. Wish me luck. I know enough about UNIX to get in BAD trouble :-)
Troy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ted Spradley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 9:43 PM Subject: Re: [Newbie]X86 Log in > > 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 _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
