I recently added some packages and somewhere during the installation I got a question something like: "Should I kill XDM" I said yes and after the installation my X setup was broken.
I think it added xbooks but I don't believe I added xbase again which I would expect to change everything. It replaced many of the files X uses for configuration. Now when xdm starts, I can log in as any user but the characters are quite unreadable. The only way I can start x with the same desktop as I had before is by issuing: startx -- -bpp 16 as root. But of course, being root all the time is a bad thing, as they say. if I try starting with startx -- -bpp 8 I get the same unreadable characters as with xdm. I'd like to be able to run xdm to start X but it seems that it starts in some wrong mode. I believe when I originaly installed debian, it asked me if I wanted to use xdm to start x and it recommended it. Is there a script or some parameters I can pass to have xdm start X in the same mode that startx -- -bpp 16 does? Thanx in advance, Ed -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
