[gnome-freebsd] Re: gnome-freebsd digest, Vol 1 #15 - 1 msg (GDM upon startup)

[Andrew Gervase <aries toad net>]

I'm assuming that your intention is to start up GDM upon boot. 
Somewhere in between versions of GDM, there were changes made such that
it will no longer start up from a definition in /etc/ttys.  Instead, the
authors have provided a script in /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d/gdm.sh.sample. 
Simply copy this to gdm.sh and upon startup, you'll be presented with
GDM.  Also, remove the corresponding entry from /etc/ttys.

Andy



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>    1. Problem with gdm (Deling Ren)
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> From: "Deling Ren" <deling_ren 123mail org>
> To: gnome-freebsd gnome org
> Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 10:39:02 -0800
> Subject: [gnome-freebsd] Problem with gdm
> 
> Hi all, I encountered a problem with gdm 2 on my FreeBSD 4.7:
> 
> If I login from text mode and launch gdm, there is no problem.
> 
> But if I specify gdm as the default display manager by editing /etc/ttys,
> gdm won't come up . 
> The screen splashes back and forth between the graphical mode and text
> mode several times and 
> stopped at the login prompt.
> 
> If I specify xdm as the display manager, there is no problem.
> 
> I looked into /var/log/XFree86.0.log and found no error message.
> 
> My FreeBSD version is 4.7 release. I did a cvsup and got the latest
> XFree86(4.3.0,1) and 
> gdm2 (2.4.1.3). Anybody there could give me a hand? Any suggestion will
> be highly appreciated. 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Deling
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>   Deling Ren
>   deling_ren 123mail org
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