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GDM is installed.
-Do _NOT_ use /etc/ttys to start gdm at boot time. This will result in gdm
-hanging or restarting constantly. Instead, copy the included gdm.sh.sample
-script to gdm.sh, and restart. This script is found, by default, in
-/usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d.
+Do _NOT_ use /etc/ttys to start gdm at boot time. This will result in gdm
+hanging or restarting constantly. Instead, copy the included gdm.sh.sample
+script to gdm.sh, and restart. This script is found in
+%%PREFIX%%/etc/rc.d.
GDM uses its own locale.alias file to determine its language and especially
-the GNOME-2 fontencoding. This file is located, by default, in
-/usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/locale.alias. By default, the character set for every
-county using the EURO currency is set to ISO8859-15 in order to enable the
-EURO sign. If you don't feel comfortable with this, edit this file according
+the GNOME 2 fontencoding. This file is located in
+%%PREFIX%%/etc/gdm/locale.alias. By default, the character set for every
+county using the EURO currency is set to ISO8859-15 in order to enable the
+EURO sign. If you do not feel comfortable with this, edit this file according
to your preferences.
-If you are running 5.x and you are running 5.1-RELEASE or earlier, GDM will
+If you are running 5.X and you are running 5.1-RELEASE or earlier, GDM will
fail to work due to a bug in OpenPAM. You can download a patch from
http://www.FreeBSD.org/~marcus/pam_get_user.c.diff. You must also have the
FreeBSD src tree on your system. Do the following to apply the patch:
# cd /usr
+
# patch -p < /path/to/pam_get_user.c.diff
Then rebuild and install world. Note, this bug does _NOT_ affect FreeBSD
-4.x.
+4.X.