Re: kdm / xdm dying

2002-02-13 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
On Wednesday, 13. February 2002 19:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello: > > I don't think this is a Debian problem. The reason is, early this morning, > during graveyard shift, the same thing happened here. There were only > three X terminal PC's logged in at the time. By chance, all three happen

Re: kdm / xdm dying

2002-02-13 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
On Wednesday, 13. February 2002 19:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello: > > I don't think this is a Debian problem. The reason is, early this morning, > during graveyard shift, the same thing happened here. There were only > three X terminal PC's logged in at the time. By chance, all three happe

kdm / xdm dying

2002-02-13 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
Hi all! I've got a problem with our terminal-Server running Debian woody with XFree4 and the thin clients running Debian woody with XFree4. All clients get their X/kdm via "X -query server". The problem is that about three times a year the kdm/xdm states the message "too many keepalive retransm

kdm / xdm dying

2002-02-13 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
Hi all! I've got a problem with our terminal-Server running Debian woody with XFree4 and the thin clients running Debian woody with XFree4. All clients get their X/kdm via "X -query server". The problem is that about three times a year the kdm/xdm states the message "too many keepalive retrans

How to debug

2001-10-15 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
Hello. Since I set up a (terminal-) server for testing, there are really strange problems with X (or maybe the kernel). I'm using sid on this system in order to experiment with the newest features and kernel 2.4.10, the thin clients use a nfs-rooted stripped down debian image (sid, kernel 2.4.12

How to debug

2001-10-15 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
Hello. Since I set up a (terminal-) server for testing, there are really strange problems with X (or maybe the kernel). I'm using sid on this system in order to experiment with the newest features and kernel 2.4.10, the thin clients use a nfs-rooted stripped down debian image (sid, kernel 2.4.1

Is it possible to disable the mouse cursor?

2000-12-09 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
Hi! Me again, asking some nerving questions ;-) Since the system I'm trying to set up is equipped with a touchscreen, a mousepointer makes no sence, too. I tried to disable it via "xsetroot -cursor path_to_empty_bitmap path_to_mask" but this works only for the X background. Placing the mouse cur

Is it possible to disable the mouse cursor?

2000-12-09 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
Hi! Me again, asking some nerving questions ;-) Since the system I'm trying to set up is equipped with a touchscreen, a mousepointer makes no sence, too. I tried to disable it via "xsetroot -cursor path_to_empty_bitmap path_to_mask" but this works only for the X background. Placing the mouse cu

Re: How to start X during bootup as user

2000-12-09 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
Hi all :-) I tried again at home. "console" in the Xwrapper.config doesn't work from init, but "anybody" does now. Maybe there was a type in it at work... Thanks for your ideas, -Cajus

Re: How to start X during bootup as user

2000-12-09 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
Hi all :-) I tried again at home. "console" in the Xwrapper.config doesn't work from init, but "anybody" does now. Maybe there was a type in it at work... Thanks for your ideas, -Cajus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PRO

Re: How to start X during bootup as user

2000-12-08 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
Am Friday 08 December 2000 09:33 schrieb Joshua Shagam: > Ah, okay, that makes more sense. The shellscript is probably the easiest > way in that case. Try starting up a getty using your shellscript instead > of /bin/login; I believe you'd want to add '-l /path/to/the/shellscript' to > the end of

Re: How to start X during bootup as user

2000-12-08 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
Am Friday 08 December 2000 09:22 schrieb Joshua Shagam: > On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 08:42:57AM +0100, Cajus Pollmeier wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I'm trying to run X from an init script during boot up like this: > > > > #!/bin/bash > > while true; do > &

How to start X during bootup as user

2000-12-08 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
Hi! I'm trying to run X from an init script during boot up like this: #!/bin/bash while true; do su - kiosk -c /usr/X11R6/bin/startx done Starting this manually as root works as expected. While booting I get: X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting. var: allowed_users, value:

Re: How to start X during bootup as user

2000-12-08 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
Am Friday 08 December 2000 09:33 schrieb Joshua Shagam: > Ah, okay, that makes more sense. The shellscript is probably the easiest > way in that case. Try starting up a getty using your shellscript instead > of /bin/login; I believe you'd want to add '-l /path/to/the/shellscript' to > the end of

Re: How to start X during bootup as user

2000-12-08 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
Am Friday 08 December 2000 09:22 schrieb Joshua Shagam: > On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 08:42:57AM +0100, Cajus Pollmeier wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I'm trying to run X from an init script during boot up like this: > > > > #!/bin/bash > > while true; do > &

How to start X during bootup as user

2000-12-07 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
Hi! I'm trying to run X from an init script during boot up like this: #!/bin/bash while true; do su - kiosk -c /usr/X11R6/bin/startx done Starting this manually as root works as expected. While booting I get: X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting. var: allowed_users, value