On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Shao Zhang wrote: > Sven Garbade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I´ve succesfully installed Woody and XFree 4.0.1-8 last weekend. Only > > xdm shows a strange behavior. It starts nearly one minute after the > > system has bootet. It´s possiblke to login to a console, and suddenly > > xdm awakes. Any ideas?
The reason for this is in /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config. The following line is in this file: DisplayManager.randomFile: /dev/urandom /dev/urandom generates random numbers but is not very fast. You can comment this line out and then the default (/dev/mem) is used which is much faster. Best regards, Andreas ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dipl.-Phys. Andreas Nowack email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RWTH Aachen III. Phys. Institut B Sommerfeldstr. / Physikzentrum phone: +49 241 80-7306,-6342 D-52056 Aachen fax: +49 241 8888 244 Germany ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
