INCOMPLETE or INCORRECT procedure posted in the FreeBSD Handbook

[Manolis Kiagias]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 5:22 PM, Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr at gmail.com> wrote:
> email wrote:
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>> Manolis Kiagias wrote:
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>>> email wrote:
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>>>> Manolis Kiagias wrote:
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>>>>> email wrote:
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>>>>>> 5.7.3.1 The KDE Display Manager
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>>>>>> 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.
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>>>> 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
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>>> I will try it on a test system later today, and if necessary I will
>>> create a patch for the handbook section. Thanks.
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>> 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
>


Having compiled xorg and KDE from ports, I am unable to recreate your problem.
After modifying the line in /etc/ttys and kill -HUP 1, I get KDM and
after login (without changing anything else from KDM Menu) I get a
fully functional KDE desktop. Are you sure you haven't missed anything
else in your process? In particular (although not strictly necessary),
have you created an xorg.conf per Handbook's instructions?