Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 00:45:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Philip Murray <pmurray@monolith.open2view.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: GDM not working Message-ID: <20010905004424.N95138-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <20010905155834.A592@monolith.open2view.com>
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I'm having the same problem with the latest gdm and 4.3-RELEASE. Someone suggested recompiling all my Gnome components, but that doesn't work either. I think the problem might be with XFree 4.x. Xwrapper can be installed from /usr/ports/x11/wrapper. Joe On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Philip Murray wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed gdm via pkg_add from the 4.3 CD and when FreeBSD boots X comes up but just sits at it's grey screen. The gdm chooser never appears. > > I've looked up and down and I can't find any reason for it doing so, no error messages at all. I've left it for a while to see if it would time out on something but to no avail. > > How do I get it to work? > > Also, when I installed XFree86 4, it said if I want to startx as a normal user Ineed to install xwrapper, but now I can't find xwrapper on the cd or in the ports collection. Where is it? > > Cheers > > -- > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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