> I have installed XFree86 4.2 and KDE3 on a FreeBSD box running 2 PII 450mz > processors. > The problem: xdm only seems to work on ttyv8.
Check the output of 'man XFree86' again. Working as designed; if you don't specify a virtual tty, it'll grab the first one not running a getty. I'll bet you've got the default vtty's 0 thru 7 set up in /etc/ttys. > logout only brings up another > login screen and does not return to the terminal. 'man XFree86'. Working as designed. Xdm is a session manager. It doesn't run X once and exit. Use startx or xinit if you want that (depracated: *dm is the way to go, IMHO). > Logging in as the > superuser brings up KDE3 and the only way out is by hitting F1. ??? Depends on how your X session is getting started, and what the 'Go Away' key is for KDE. I don't use KDE. > If I log in > as any user, I get the xconsole and another set-up screen. Sounds like you're getting logged out, e.g. either your X or your KDE session is failing for some reason. Check your error log. Look in '/var/log', particularly at 'xdm-errors.log'. Also check .xsession-errors in your home directory. One of these will have the error output from KDE when you run as a regular user. I'd guess that you need to set up some kind of environment for it. Look for permissions errors etc. > How can I set up xdm to come up on another terminal and so it will close an > return to the terminal when I logout? You can't, AFAIK. I'd suggest you don't use xdm for that, because it is a Display Manager, and it will Manage the Display... :-) Actually, this can make it a bear to debug X problems, if the X server won't run for example, because xdm will start X, the server will exit, you'll switch back to a text mode and xdm will start X again... Just use Ctrl-Alt-Fx to switch to virtual terminal x-1 (e.g. Ctrl-Alt-F1 switches to vty0, the first one you see when you boot the machine). > And how to set up xdm to switch to > other windows managers to try them out? I use 'wdm', which offers a drop-down list of window managers to try out. However, I mostly use it now because I like the pretty appearance at login, because I've been using WindowMaker for years (small, fast, intuitive, non-intrustive & pretty). > I have searched the net and the man pages and nothing seems to work. :(( > Phil HTH. Regards, AS
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