Thanks, Jon!! This fixed it!!
MY question now goes to the Debian maintainers.. WHY is this not WELL
documented?? This should certainly be in a info file somewhere!!
Thanks to all who replied.
Chris.
On Wed, 9 Oct 1996, John Labovitz wrote:
> Chris R. Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I can start X by using "xinit" -- xdm STILL does NOTHING.
>
> the problem is probably that xdm is running, but waiting for a
> connection from an X server (or is it client? argh!). this seems to
> be the default for xdm; you have to specially configure it to use a
> local server.
>
> i spent a couple of hours last weekend trying to make xdm work, and
> finally succeeded. after poring over incomprehensible X manpages, i
> finally found the magic incantation: simply add the following line to
> `/etc/X11/xdm/Xservers' (without the leading spaces):
>
> :0 my-x-server local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0
>
> `my-x-server' in the above line can be anything you want; i suppose in
> a single-user environment it doesn't matter.
>
> according to the comments in that file, installing xbase should set up
> this file correctly, but it didn't for me; perhaps i didn't specify at
> the time that i wanted xdm to run instead of using the xinit (aka
> startx) method.
>
> disclaimer: i may have forgotten another incantation that's required
> to run xdm. i know i messed with a bunch of files, but i do remember
> that this was an important key.
>
> john
>
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