(I switched X back to Xpmac before all of this)
I actually didn't compile it - I found a .deb and installed it using
dpkg. I turned authorization off as you said, and now I get a
cooler-looking login screen, along with a little output-only console in
the bottom right. When I enter my name/pass, the console prints "(xdm)
session opened by uid" and the rest is cut off at the edge of the
screen. The screen flickers, goes out, and then comes back with the
login screen again with the message "(xdm) session closed for user
steven" in the little console thingy. I logged in via SSH to grab the
logs, and the console thingy told me that I had logged via SSH.
xdm.log shows this:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /var/log/xdm.log
Woowoo
Xpmac / X Window System (X11R6.3)
Release Date: April 10, 2000
Running in mode=13, depth=8; req mode=0 depth=0
Using VT number 7
Mapped frame buffer (physaddr 0xf1001000 size 0x7ec10) at 0x30027000.
PEXExtensionInit: Couldn't open default PEX font file Roman_M
Using XFree86/Linux keycode handling.
PEXExtensionInit: Couldn't open default PEX font file Roman_M
Using XFree86/Linux keycode handling.
PEXExtensionInit: Couldn't open default PEX font file Roman_M
Using XFree86/Linux keycode handling.
PEXExtensionInit: Couldn't open default PEX font file Roman_M
Using XFree86/Linux keycode handling.
PEXExtensionInit: Couldn't open default PEX font file Roman_M
Using XFree86/Linux keycode handling.
Doesn't look too bad this time, except for the PEX font. What else
could stop me from logging in?
Thanks,
Steven
On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 08:20 AM, Frank Murphy wrote:
The Opt-F1,F2,etc trick wasn't working, and neither does this.
I think that the Xpmac server doesn't allow this <ctrl>-<opt>-<F1>
trick (but
it is Control and Opt and Function key; I assume you typoed that
above.)
To those who wanted the logs, it was actually at /var/log/xdm.log
And, to those who are saying that it's unsupported, the 'real' X
server
doesn't seem to support valkyrie video devices.
The Xpmac seems to only log to the display manager, not to the Xfree86
location. But Xpmac is unsupported in Debian (which is why you had to
compile
it yourself), so that means that valkyrie video devices are
unsupported in
Debian. But you might still get it to work. If you can, perhaps you
could
make a package for others who might need it.
<log snipped>
Looks like it's saying that I'm not authorized to connect to the
server. I tried logging in as root from the X login screen, figuring
that root of all people should be authorized to do anything, but the
same thing happened, except it was client 3 in the log.
I would think so too. There was recently a problem with X and gcc 3.3
and
optimization -O2 and authorization. If you're using xdm, try adding
this to
/etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config:
DisplayManager*authorize: false
Otherwise, try to recompile Xpmac with -O1 (or even no optimization,
just to
see).
Hey, when it's saying that the connection to :0.0 is refused, does
:0.0
refer to localhost? If so, could the port that it's connecting to be
blocked by a firewall? If so, does a firewall come installed on the
standard installation? (I'll bet it does) How do I control it, and
what port must I open? (All just guesses here)
:0.0 does refer to the local machine, but (at least in XFree86) X will
use
unix (not network) sockets for faster communication, so a firewall
will not
affect it. Also, I don't believe Debian comes with a firewall by
default.
Frank
