Re: What is the proper way to invoke GDM at start-up
"Todd T. Fries" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.openbsd.x11 |
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| Organization | Free Daemon Consulting, LLC |
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Please email the maintainer of this port a bugreport. I have never seen kdm or gdm work, nor has, I would wager to bet, most of the people on this list. On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 13:41, [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. > 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? > > Thanks. > -- > nickf3 -- Todd Fries .. [email protected] _____________________________________________ | \ 1.636.410.0632 (voice) | Free Daemon Consulting, LLC \ 1.405.227.9094 (voice) | http://FreeDaemonConsulting.com \ 1.866.792.3418 (FAX) | "..in support of free software solutions." \ 1.700.227.9094 (IAXTEL) | \ 250797 (FWD) \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ 37E7 D3EB 74D0 8D66 A68D B866 0326 204E 3F42 004A http://todd.fries.net/pgp.txt