Re: quick TTY Question

From: RW (list-freebsd-2004_at_morbius.sent.com)
Date: 09/30/05

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    To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
    Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 20:28:57 +0100
    
    

    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@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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