From owner-freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 31 10:29:38 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03C991065674 for ; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 10:29:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from dirj.bris.ac.uk (dirj.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.78]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABAF68FC16 for ; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 10:29:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from isis.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.10.63]) by dirj.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MWpMe-0003aX-57; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:29:36 +0100 Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.187.241]) by isis.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1MWpMd-0004lM-DY; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:29:27 +0100 Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n6VATRsE073385; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:29:27 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: (from mexas@localhost) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n6VATQBH073384; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:29:26 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk: mexas set sender to mexas@bristol.ac.uk using -f Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:29:26 +0100 From: Anton Shterenlikht To: Nathan Message-ID: <20090731102926.GA73358@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <20090430142744.GA32844@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> <1241301413.33649.110.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20090616095729.GA98713@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> <1245183702.71590.6.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20090617101407.GB84905@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> <96c9d6a80906170914i78c0d1fas5ffa77020ec28c36@mail.gmail.com> <20090618152536.GA24358@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> <96c9d6a80906180940k7626e581g60c7f1a68006089a@mail.gmail.com> <20090619093836.GA72981@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> <96c9d6a80906202149q3bdaf42dv88c303b49051f03c@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <96c9d6a80906202149q3bdaf42dv88c303b49051f03c@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Spam-Score: -1.5 X-Spam-Level: - Cc: Joe Marcus Clarke , freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org, freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dbus, hal over xdmcp? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the IA-64 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 10:29:38 -0000 On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 10:49:10PM -0600, Nathan wrote: > On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 3:38 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > >> 5.  And add this line right below it: > >> > >>       exec gnome-session > > > > I see. So your users don't have $HOME/.xsession files? > > Not that I know of. > > >> 7.  Edit /etc/ttys so that the ttyv8 line has on instead of off so it > >> looks like: > >> > >>       ttyv8   "/usr/local/bin/xdm -nodaemon"  xterm   on  secure > > > > I start xdm manually. I was under the impression the above line > > wouldn't work on a headless box. > > Works fine on my headless box. > > > Few more questions, if you please: > > > > What architecture are your XDMCP server and the desktops? > > Do the users start X with -query ? > > server is 7.2-RELEASE-amd64. Clients are HP/NeoWare e90 thin clients. > I don't know the specs exactly. > > The thin clients use their built-in gui, but from my mac I can connect > fine with "X -query (ip) -once" I think I finally got this working, after half a year of trying. I replaced alpha 6.4-stable with ia64 8.0-beta2. All xdm, dbus and hal config options were replicated from the alpha configuration. This would suggest that hal, dbus and XDMCP are not interacting correctly under 6.4 alpha. Now I can get kazekahase to work. many thanks to all who contributed to this thread. -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423