Re: setting up gdm

["Jeremy C. Reed" <reed%reedmedia.net@localhost>]

> > How did you start X?
> >
> > Did you run gdm? (Or X? or startx or xinit? or other?)
> >
> 
> I am starting X with "startx", but I didn't do anything to configure it.
> It seems like I used Xfree86 in the past, but I can't even find it in the
> pkgsrc.


The first thing is to make sure X starts. So X starts with startx?

XFree86 was removed from pkgsrc. XFree86 is available from NetBSD in x* 
distribution sets. pkgsrc has alternative: X.org (many xorg packages).

> I also tried putting in gdm=YES into rc.conf, but it only gives errors
> into the messages log:
> 
> Jun 24 14:42:15 grace gdm-binary[98]: WARNING: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler:
> Fatal X error - Restarting :0
> Jun 24 14:42:21 grace gdm-binary[882]: WARNING: Failed to start X server
> several times in a short time period; disabling display :0

Maybe need to look in the /var/log/XFree86.?.log file. It may indicate the 
problem(s).