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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
>
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