Re: What is the proper way to invoke GDM at start-up

[email protected] wrote:

> Hello, everyone,
> 
> I installed Gnome and Gdm from snapshot packages (as of April 24).
> IBM ThinkPad A30p, OS snapshot April 20.
> Everything's OK, but I'm having issues auto-starting Gdm.
> If I put /usr/local/bin/gdm into /etc/rc.local, it starts, but
> ignores the keyboard to the point that I can't even do ctrl-alt-fn.
> Mouse works, so if I, say, select xdmcp chooser, then cancel
> (i.e. restart the gdm), keyboard now works 

fine.
It looks likegdm is not passing the correct vtxx option to the X server.

> After a healthy dose of googling and man pages, it looks like
> the problem is in tty allocation. At least on linux gdm can
> take an additional argument like vt7 to grab tty7.
> if I put gdm into /etc/ttys, it works (keyboard is OK), even
> if slow on start, but complains along the lines "server failed to restart"
> to the logs on logout/session end.
> 
> Could somebody please enlighten me on what is the proper way of
> starting the gdm automatically on OpenBSD? And why xdm works fine from /etc/rc
> and gdm doesn't?

I don't know much about gdm's configuration files, but you need to add
a 'vt05' option to the command= line used to launch the X server.
This could probably be fixed in the port...
-- 
					Matthieu

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