Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 20:36:33 +1030 From: Andrew Reid <andrew.reid@plug.cx> To: "Anthony M. Magsino" <ammag@kulog.upm.edu.ph> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gdm Message-ID: <20011118203633.A2396@aviion.alfred.cx> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1011117131019.6228A-100000@kulog.upm.edu.ph>; from ammag@mail.upm.edu.ph on Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 01:12:24PM %2B0800 References: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1011117131019.6228A-100000@kulog.upm.edu.ph>
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On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 01:12:24PM +0800, Anthony M. Magsino wrote:
> Hi. Can anybody tell me how to make gdm work in FreeBSD-4.3? I've read
> all documentations in the CD and yes, they warned that gdm might or might
> not work. Xdm worked fine. but I want gdm. Thanks.
I installed GDM 2.2.3.2 from ports recently, and I've not been able to
get much happening either.
However, there seems to be two problems manifesting themselves
here. Firstly, in my /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/Init/Default file (the script
that gdm will execute once the X server has started), gdmlogin seemed
to be commented out or nonexistant.[1]
I added gdmlogin to Init/Default, and that managed to pop up something
vaugely intelligent. gdmlogin was complaining that I was running
different versions of the daemon (gdm) and the gdmlogin program. Odd,
seeing as I installed straight from ports.
That seems to be a step in the right direction. I'll follow this up on
Monday[2] when I've got Ethernet-speed Internet connection to work
with. I'll post any results along with the instructions to get the
beast working (if it'll work at all).
- andrew
[1] I can't remember exactly -- I was playing with it at 3:00AM last
night.
[2] I'm sending this on Sunday, Nov 18 at 20:34:36 +1030, but it'll
probably sit in the local mail queue on my notebook until
Monday. The whole concept of dialup is something I try to avoid
:-)
--
Andrew J. Reid "Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem
andrew.reid@plug.cx mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane
+61 401 946 813 mittam"
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