From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 18 14: 4:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from aviion.alfred.cx (aviion.alfred.cx [150.101.93.190]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A8F037B417 for ; Sun, 18 Nov 2001 14:04:40 -0800 (PST) Received: (from andrew@localhost) by aviion.alfred.cx (8.11.3/8.11.3) id fAIA6YW02446; Sun, 18 Nov 2001 20:36:34 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from andrew) Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 20:36:33 +1030 From: Andrew Reid To: "Anthony M. Magsino" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gdm Message-ID: <20011118203633.A2396@aviion.alfred.cx> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from ammag@mail.upm.edu.ph on Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 01:12:24PM +0800 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 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" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message