Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 12:10:21 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: "Chris Silva" <ras@interaccess.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xdm problem Message-ID: <199805200240.MAA25867@cain.gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 19 May 1998 12:14:30 EST." <003401bd8349$958478a0$ddb5a8b6@mis2>
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> Anywise, If I try to login via xdm, It tries to, then flips back to > the login screen. Has anyone had this happen? I use a Matrox Mill > set to 1024 mode. Your .xsession file is probably broken. xdm runs your .xsession file, and when it exists it kills the X server.. So generally the last thing you put there is your window manager, and when you quit that the X server exits. If you changed it and can't get back in, enter your user name and password, but instead of hitting enter after your password, press F1. This will run an 'emergency xterm' where you can edit your .xsession (I learnt this at uni, where we only have xterminals :) --------------------------------------------------------------------- |Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software | |http://www.gsoft.com.au | |The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to| |choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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