quick TTY Question

RW list-freebsd-2004 at morbius.sent.com
Fri Sep 30 12:29:01 PDT 2005


On Friday 30 September 2005 18:55, Michał Masłowski wrote:
> On Friday 30 of September 2005 19:18, RW wrote:
> > On Wednesday 28 September 2005 03:41, Eric Murphy wrote:
> > > I have gdm set in /etc/ttys instead of xdm...
> >
> > I don't use GDM and I don't know if this is the cause of the problem,
> > but:
> >
> > From: /usr/ports/UPDATING
> >
> > 20050411:
> >   AFFECTS: users of x11/gdm
> >   AUTHOR: kwm at FreeBSD.org
> >
> >   GDM now installs a rcNG script for starting the gdm daemon.
> >   To enable that gdm starts a boot time, add the following to
> > /etc/rc.conf:
> >
> >   gdm_enable="YES"
>
> If you don't use GDM, it won't affect you.

I am aware of that. 

Not having it installed does affect my ability to test whether starting GDM 
from rc.conf solves the problem.


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