To start the display manager, log in as root on the console and type:
``xdm -nodaemon
''.
You can start xdm automatically on bootup un-commenting the following
code in /etc/rc.local
:
if [ -x /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm ]; then
echo -n ' xdm'; /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm
fi
On the default OpenBSD 2.2 installation, you will need to create the virtual console device for the X server:
cd /dev
./MAKEDEV ttyC5
Note that the binary distributions of XFree86 for OpenBSD don't include support for the XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 protocol.