Trying to get the gdm started

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 19:29 +0530, Ganesh Hegde wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would have preferred to title this post with "My adventures with gdm". But
> the subject line of this email will be useful for someone searching for
> help. Gnome is a good desktop.
> 
> Well, I am not putting before you folk any kind of problem here. I am giving
> a solution that I discovered for the problem of trying to start gdm on my
> computer. First a little introduction. Recently I downloaded the disc 1 of
> the i386 7.0 Release version of freebsd. Then I installed the minimal
> distribution from this disc. My goal was to have a good desktop so I decided
> to go for gnome. But, I read in the freebsd handbook that to run gnome, I
> needed to install X.org system; so I installed the X.org application that
> came with this disc. Then I installed gnome-lite using
> 
> pkg_add -r gnome-lite

gnome2-lite does not include gdm.  If you wanted the full GNOME
distribution, you need to install gnome2.  The gnome2-lite meta-port
came about due to size constraints on the package CD.  Some people
prefer it, though, since they only want a taste of GNOME without all of
the weight of the full Desktop.

Joe

> 
> command in the terminal.
> 
> I wanted to have a login window showing up automatically at boot time and
> that meant that gdm had to start at boot time. The freebsd handbook
> mentioned that I had to stick the line
> 
> gdm_enable="YES"
> 
> at the end of the file /etc/rc.conf. I did that and restarted my computer,
> but gdm failed to start. After some googling, I found in the page faq2.html
> that I had to add the line
> 
> gnome_enable="YES"
> 
> at the end of the file /etc/rc.conf. I removed the 'gdm_enable="YES" and
> added the previous line. But, gdm still failed to start. Then I added both
> the previous two lines in this order
> 
> gnome_enable="YES"
> gdm_enable="YES"
> 
> I rebooted, but still gdm failed to start. I had a feeling that gdm was not
> installed even though the freebsd handbook claimed that gdm will be
> automatically installed when gnome is installed. I tried installing gdm.
> 
> pkg_add -r gdm
> 
> I saw that gdm did get installed now. I rebooted by computer and I saw the
> login window! I logged in and there was my gnome.
> 
> Hope this helps someone facing similar problem.
> 
> Warm Regards,
> 
> Gaura
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