Hello, this is my first post! I have worked with Linux Mint before and I thought I'd give FreeBSD a try. So far, everything has been going quite well. In one day, I have most things set up as I want them. However, I still have to login at a terminal after boot. I already tried XDM, but I both don't like it and I can only log in as root, not as a user (the login screen doesn't indicate that the password is wrong but just flashes and shows up again: however, I'd rather not use a login manager if that is possible anyway, so this is not the topic).
I have found this thread but the last post doesn't help me: when I boot, I still get a login screen. I do get some unusual behavior: after the "login:" text, the screen goes black for a couple of seconds and then returns to terminal with a lot of yadayada that indicates that xserver started. It is the same text I get when I run startx and exit again BUT normally I get some text that indicates that xserver shutdown (error: xserver didnt respond or something like that). Also, when I try the suggestion from the other thread and then run startx, it works fine but when I logout I see 'X server already running on display :0' on the terminal.
So it seems that x server does run, but I can't see anything on the screen...
Anybody has an idea how you can log in reliably?
BTW, I have xfce installed and exec startxfce4 in my .xinitrc file (which works fine: the xfce desktop starts when I run startx).
I have found this thread but the last post doesn't help me: when I boot, I still get a login screen. I do get some unusual behavior: after the "login:" text, the screen goes black for a couple of seconds and then returns to terminal with a lot of yadayada that indicates that xserver started. It is the same text I get when I run startx and exit again BUT normally I get some text that indicates that xserver shutdown (error: xserver didnt respond or something like that). Also, when I try the suggestion from the other thread and then run startx, it works fine but when I logout I see 'X server already running on display :0' on the terminal.
So it seems that x server does run, but I can't see anything on the screen...
Anybody has an idea how you can log in reliably?
BTW, I have xfce installed and exec startxfce4 in my .xinitrc file (which works fine: the xfce desktop starts when I run startx).
