INCOMPLETE or INCORRECT procedure posted in the FreeBSD Handbook

[Manolis Kiagias]

email wrote:
> Manolis Kiagias wrote:
>> email wrote:
>>> Manolis Kiagias wrote:
>>>> email wrote:
>>>>> 5.7.3.1 The KDE Display Manager
>>>>>
>>>>> Following the above causes problems.  Please update or omit that 
>>>>> passage because it doesn't work as intended.  Try it yourself on a 
>>>>> clean system and I think you'll agree.  If the above FreeBSD 
>>>>> Handbook section has been corrected since 07/28/2008 07:31EDT. 
>>>>> then please disregard this.
>>>>
>>>> Are you sure about this? What kind of "problems"? I haven't used 
>>>> KDE in a while, but starting kdm from /etc/ttys has always been the 
>>>> standard method. In fact, you can start other login managers (i.e. 
>>>> slim) from there. If anyone else has compiled KDE recently, please 
>>>> report if kdm works as described.
>>> following the above, step by step, does offer the kdm however after 
>>> loging in only the X server is started and you are unable to do 
>>> anything within the started environment.  Following the above, on a 
>>> clean system will not start kde or gnome without further 
>>> configuration whereas kde/gnome will start using startx with the 
>>> correct entires in ~/.initrc.
>>>
>>> Going for breakfast  BB in 30-mins
>>
>> I will try it on a test system later today, and if necessary I will 
>> create a patch for the handbook section. Thanks.
>
> I installed 6.3_RELEASE (ALL doc's, src, binaries EVERY-thing) from an 
> i386 iso thereafter using pkg_add -r to install kde3.5.8 and 
> gnome2.20.1.  Nothing exotic was done/installed.   <-- That's what I 
> mean when I say a clean install.  I hope this helps.
>
All right - I am doing an installation from ports (default options) and 
will post results as soon as available. It will take some time.

P.S. I've  put the doc@ list back on this