From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 4 21:45:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from shumai.marcuscom.com (rdu57-28-046.nc.rr.com [66.57.28.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47BE337B401 for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 21:45:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (marcus@localhost) by shumai.marcuscom.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f854jlq96458; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 00:45:47 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) X-Authentication-Warning: shumai.marcuscom.com: marcus owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 00:45:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Joe Clarke To: Philip Murray Cc: Subject: Re: GDM not working In-Reply-To: <20010905155834.A592@monolith.open2view.com> Message-ID: <20010905004424.N95138-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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