I'd like to boot straight to X, (kde actually) and login 
there at powerup.
I'd found instructions for setting this up on-line. Tried 
it, but didn't work.
Here is the instruction I followed...


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14.10. Graphical login with xdm

If you always use X for your work and the first thing you 
do after you log in is run startx, you can set up a 
graphical login for your workstation which does this
automatically. It is very easy: 

1.Create the .xsession file in your home directory. This 
file is similar to ~/.xinitrc and can, in fact, be a link 
to the latter. 

2.Modify /etc/rc.conf: 

  xdm=YES       xdm_flags=""       # x11 display manager
              

  If you prefer (why?) you can add the following line at 
the end of /etc/rc.local instead of modifying rc.conf: 

  /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm
              

  This method can be used to start, for example, kdm or 
gdm instead of xdm. 
  
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I created the hard link to ~/.xinitrc named as 
~/.xsession, no prob. Then I substituted "xdm" from above 
with "kdm=YES" and "kdm_flags="" in /etc/rc.conf 
supposing that to be what was ment. 

It doesn't work. Nothing bad happens; it just doesn't 
boot straight to X. 

I do have ~/.xinitrc so that it works okay when I login 
at the command line, do su, and then type startx. KDE 
starts up fine then (except for audio...but that's 
another matter).

I simply doesn't autoboot straight to X. It just goes to 
the command line for login like regular.
  
Any hints will be much appreciated.
  
Thanks,
  
Gan Starling
Kalamazoo MI  
  
  
PS: Thanks to all for clue-in on my pkg_add probs with 
kde. I found those dependencies which failed in Wasabi's 
OTHER cdrom, outside the paths called for by the pkg_add 
script. I did pkg_add on them manually, one-by-one, and 
it was fine after that.