Re: xdm 4.2.0pre1v1 troubles

2002-07-26 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Alex Romosan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.07.24.0155 +0200]: > to get xdm to work you need to edit /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config. these are > the lines that i changed (shown are what i changed them to): thanks, this worked: > DisplayManager.pidFile: /var/run/xdm.pid > DisplayManager._0

Re: xdm 4.2.0pre1v1 troubles

2002-07-23 Thread Alex Romosan
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > now i can get to start with startx and it works perfectly (and sooo > fast thanks to the 4.2 ATI radeon driver). however, i can't get xdm > to work. it displays the login window, when i enter the information, > the screen goes black for about 5 seconds

Re: xdm 4.2.0pre1v1 troubles

2002-07-23 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Russell Neches <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.07.23.0011 +0200]: > Does gdm start and present a login window? What does it do when you > attempt to log in? Have you tried each of the various sessions it > gives you? It does the same as I described for xdm in the original post. And no sessi

Re: xdm 4.2.0pre1v1 troubles

2002-07-23 Thread Alex Romosan
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > now i can get to start with startx and it works perfectly (and sooo > fast thanks to the 4.2 ATI radeon driver). however, i can't get xdm > to work. it displays the login window, when i enter the information, > the screen goes black for about 5 second

Re: xdm 4.2.0pre1v1 troubles

2002-07-23 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Russell Neches <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.07.23.0011 +0200]: > Does gdm start and present a login window? What does it do when you > attempt to log in? Have you tried each of the various sessions it > gives you? It does the same as I described for xdm in the original post. And no sess

Re: xdm 4.2.0pre1v1 troubles

2002-07-22 Thread Russell Neches
Does gdm start and present a login window? What does it do when you attempt to log in? Have you tried each of the various sessions it gives you? One of them usually starts X in some very conservative way, like with twm or something. That should be a good place to start. The Xsession option shoul

Re: xdm 4.2.0pre1v1 troubles

2002-07-22 Thread Russell Neches
Does gdm start and present a login window? What does it do when you attempt to log in? Have you tried each of the various sessions it gives you? One of them usually starts X in some very conservative way, like with twm or something. That should be a good place to start. The Xsession option shou

Re: xdm 4.2.0pre1v1 troubles

2002-07-22 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Russell Neches <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.07.22.0449 +0200]: > 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). i couldn't get gdm to work, kdm seems to work. care to share your co

Re: xdm 4.2.0pre1v1 troubles

2002-07-22 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Russell Neches <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.07.22.0449 +0200]: > 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). i couldn't get gdm to work, kdm seems to work. care to share your c

Re: xdm 4.2.0pre1v1 troubles

2002-07-21 Thread Russell Neches
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 fil

Re: xdm 4.2.0pre1v1 troubles

2002-07-21 Thread Russell Neches
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 fi

Re: xdm 4.2.0pre1v1 troubles

2002-07-21 Thread martin f krafft
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

Re: xdm 4.2.0pre1v1 troubles

2002-07-20 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Christian T. Steigies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.07.20.1712 +0200]: > > now i can get to start with startx and it works perfectly (and sooo > > fast thanks to the 4.2 ATI radeon driver). however, i can't get xdm to > > work. it displays the login window, when i enter the information, the

Re: xdm 4.2.0pre1v1 troubles

2002-07-20 Thread Russell Neches
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.

Re: xdm 4.2.0pre1v1 troubles

2002-07-20 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Sat, Jul 20, 2002 at 04:53:18PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > hi folks, just upgraded to XF4.2.0 on my testing system from branden's > people.debian.org archive (the netherlands mirror actually). > > now i can get to start with startx and it works perfectly (and sooo > fast thanks to the 4.2

Re: xdm 4.2.0pre1v1 troubles

2002-07-20 Thread martin f krafft
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xdm 4.2.0pre1v1 troubles

2002-07-20 Thread martin f krafft
hi folks, just upgraded to XF4.2.0 on my testing system from branden's people.debian.org archive (the netherlands mirror actually). now i can get to start with startx and it works perfectly (and sooo fast thanks to the 4.2 ATI radeon driver). however, i can't get xdm to work. it displays the logi