Hi > On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 17:51, andrew may wrote: >> On Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 10:29:36PM -0500, Bert Knabe wrote: >> After much wailing and nashing of teeth, I have gotten Linux installed and >> Xwindows almost working. Installing Linux was the easy part. Now when I >> boot Linux, it boots into a Debian graphic login, but it won't let me >> login. Whether I log in as me or as root, it says the password is >> incorrect. I know the passwords are correct, they are the same wones I >> used from the command >> >> I think gdm and the others don't allow root login's by default. Check in >> /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf add or change AllowRoot=true > > Logging in as root into X isn't a good idea in general, there are sudo, su > & friends for administrative tasks. And he tried as normal user so that > can't be the only problem anyhow.
Hmm, interesting. Some days ago I freshly installed woody on my apus box, changed the sources.list to testing (iirc), downloaded the X package trough tasksel. After some fiddling with xfree86 (fbdev vs. glint) I finally managed to have gdm running, asking me for username and pw to graphicaly log in. I had the same problem, my pw was rejected. I finally found out that I couldn't do any capital letters according to a bad xkb config. Have you ever tried to type your pw in the username field? So you could at least verify that the keyboard is working correctly. BTW: now I have it all up and running, thanks to putting woody in the sources.list, not using taskesl but aptitude, and some nice FAQ's. -- Best wishes, Andi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
