X doesn't run at boot

Gunnar Flygt flygt at sr.se
Sat May 22 02:29:57 PDT 2004


On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 07:26:50PM -0400, Shaun T. Erickson wrote:
> I installed 5.2.1 on my Dell laptop. It runs great. I've configured X, 
> and that runs great. But it doesn't come up in X (xdm?) mode at boot 
> time. Is there a port I need to install so that it will? Or a entry I 
> need in my rc.conf, or what?

Edit /etc/ttys the line with ttyv8! If you set it to on instead of
default off you should start with the login for X. But you better try
that it works before you do this. Try (as root) `xdm -nodaemon` to see
that your X environment is OK.

> 
> 	-ste
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Gunnar Flygt
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