martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> also sprach Russell Neches <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.07.20.2244 +0200]: > > xdm isn't configured from XF86Config-4. If X is actually running via > > "startx," you need to look elsewhere to get xdm to behave itself. It > > has its own configuration files in /etc/X11/xdm/. I don't use it, so > > I'm not sure if it is broken in a configuration kind of way, or in > > some more serious way. > > I don't think we understand each other. XF86Config-4 *does* control > the X server configuration, and the X server is still started for xdm. > Or put it that way: All I've ever had to do when I got a new graphics > card, was to amend XF86Config-4. If I didn't do that, xdm wouldn't > work. And /var/log/xdm.log includes all the output I'd normally get on > stdout from startx... Well, as you said, xdm uses X. So, if X works fine without xdm, then by the process of elimination the configuration issue must lie elsewhere. I've tweaked kdm and gdm to fix exactly this problem, so I would imagine that xdm works similarly (since gdm and kdm are derivative of xdm). As someone else pointed out, xdm is broken. I don't know _how_ it is broken. If everything seems to be set up correctly, and it misbehaves anyway, then maybe it's been patched to only execute /dev/null as the startup script. ^_^ > > Whenever I've seen behavior like that from xdm, it's been because it > > was attempting to invoke a startup script that doesn't exist, doesn't > > have proper permissions or has the wrong ownership. It's also possible > > that the startup script is invoking something (a window manager or > > desktop system) that is dumping core or otherwise misbehaving. If > > that's the case, you are effectively logging out as soon as you log > > in. > > Good thinking, but it's not the cause. The startup scripts execute > just fine. Aside, Debian's configured so as to employ .xinitrc and > .xsession from both, xdm and startx. So if it works with one, it > should work with the other. That's pretty nifty. My number-one complaint about using display managers used to be that you had to fiddle and jigger them to a senible startup, and this was non-trivial for a new user. I stopped using a display manager some time before I switched to Debian. Anyway, if you've gotta have a login manager, maybe you'd have better luck with gdm until the xdm begins working again. Russell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
