Buddha Buck wrote:
At some point in the past, my /dev/mouse got to be a link to a named
pipe created by gpm (I think it was "gpmdata", but I could be wrong.
I don't use gpm, so there was noting to listen to on that pipe.
When I ran "XFree86 -configure", it switched my monitor to a graphics
mode, and hung forever (at least 8 hours). After several attempts to
You could have switched to another console by pressing ctrl-alt-f1/f2
and stoped the X server. ctrl-alt-backspace could have been your friend,
too.
> [...]
Now I'm simply having trouble logging in with XDM...
Probably You are - as me - missing the "sessreg" binary.
As long as no one here is willing :-) to reveal which packet that
beast belongs to, try disabling the use of sessreg by
uncommenting out the "use-sessreg" line in /etc/X11/xdm/xdm.options.
Boris
