Putting my new FreeBSD 9.3 desktop online ....
flo at snakeoilproductions.net
flo at snakeoilproductions.net
Sun Aug 17 09:17:25 UTC 2014
Greetings,
On 2014-08-15 17:53, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> Xdm uses .xinitrc to start a "something" right? Please show your
> .xinitrc
> I guess you're trying to use xfce, have you verified that all
> required
> packages are installed ( xfce, xorg-server, xf86-video*,
> xf86-input*?
> What graphics hw are you using? Which xorg-stack ( new /old)?
> Are you using a xorg.conf or using default on-the-fly-config?
> Best regards
> Andreas
>
> OK, here goes, see attached. Whenever I startx from the command line
> after a console login, XFCE starts up & operates AOK, so I would
> guess
> the install is OK. Gfx hw is a jaguar kabini CPU, w/ GPU on die w/
> CPU.
> gfx is too new for X.org support, so I am using the vesa driver.
> .xinitrc: exec /usr/local/bin/startxfce4
Maybe I'm missing the point here entirely, but xdm uses $HOME/.xsession.
A missing .xsession has quite the same symptoms, and since XFCE works
fine after startx,
which indeed uses $HOME/.xinitrc, you might try
% echo 'exec /usr/local/bin/startxfce4' >$HOME/.xsession
and then restart xdm.
Sincerely,
florian
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