Re: kdm dies

2001-10-21 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> I understand what startx is. [...] > hehe, heck, i stopmed into the ambiguity trap. or my understanding of the english language is just that bad. :) > Under xfree 3.?, I believe that the server was specified in > XF86Config. > nope ... XF86Config is the server's config file, not the file whic

Re: kdm dies

2001-10-21 Thread Daniel Jones
On Sun, 21 Oct 2001 21:57:56 +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Which configuration file would cause kdm to use a different server >> than startx? >> >startx is not a server. it's a wrapper to xinit, which starts the server >specified in /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc. but that has

Re: kdm dies

2001-10-21 Thread Gordon Tyler
On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 01:18:50PM -0400, Daniel Jones wrote: > With kdm debugging enabled, I'm now getting an error in > syslog to the effect that "can't start > /urs/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA" I've uninstalled XF86_SVGA and > reconfigured xfree. Manually starting xfree with "startx" > works fine, usi

Re: kdm dies

2001-10-21 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> Which configuration file would cause kdm to use a different server > than startx? > startx is not a server. it's a wrapper to xinit, which starts the server specified in /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc. but that has _nothing_ to do with kdm. kdm's x-server config file is /etc/kde2/kdm/Xservers. possibly

Re: kdm dies

2001-10-21 Thread Daniel Jones
On Sun, 21 Oct 2001 15:20:09 +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> apt-get --reinstall xfree86-common kde kdm >> >> fails to correct the problem. Perhaps xfree86-common >> doesn't contain the lib or module that kdm is mis-linked >> with? >> >xlibs is supposed to contain the rig

Re: kdm dies

2001-10-21 Thread Nikolai Nespor
In reply to Daniel Jones: > Running XF86 4.1 and KDE 2.2 on Debian unstable with kernel > 2.4.12. > Oct 16 19:45:59 corwin kdm[2505]: Found new display: :0 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp ^ did you have X 3.3.x insta

Re: kdm dies

2001-10-21 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> Oct 16 19:45:59 corwin kdm[2505]: GenerateAuthorization XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 > shit ... one more of this sort. pls have a look at kdm.log. does it say something about missing symbols? also, try changing kdmrc [X-*-Core] AuthNames to "MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1". > As you can see, the first log entry was

kdm dies

2001-10-21 Thread Daniel Jones
Running XF86 4.1 and KDE 2.2 on Debian unstable with kernel 2.4.12. kdm starts on boot up but then dies. Passing kdm -debug 255, I get tons of stuff in my syslog but nothing that appears to be an error: Oct 16 19:44:18 corwin kdm[2501]: Forked helper /usr/bin/kdm_config, pid 2502 Oct 16 19:44:18