From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 31 21:51:48 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1ACCF10656D7 for ; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 21:51:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (marcuscom-pt.tunnel.tserv1.fmt.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f00:ffff::1279]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6A128FC1D for ; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 21:51:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from [IPv6:2001:470:1f00:2464::4] (shumai.marcuscom.com [IPv6:2001:470:1f00:2464::4]) by creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n0VLq15t015627; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:52:01 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) From: Joe Marcus Clarke To: Uwe Laverenz In-Reply-To: <20090128142407.GA6144@laverenz.de> References: <20090119095444.GA10520@laverenz.de> <1232387275.33516.92.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20090120082335.GA8747@laverenz.de> <1232472673.60296.68.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20090128142407.GA6144@laverenz.de> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-NcQf58ZIDhx/QsFQSq5i" Organization: MarcusCom, Inc. Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:51:51 -0500 Message-Id: <1233438711.38049.6.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.3 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,NO_RELAYS autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on creme-brulee.marcuscom.com Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GDM 2.24.1 and XDMCP X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 21:51:49 -0000 --=-NcQf58ZIDhx/QsFQSq5i Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 15:24 +0100, Uwe Laverenz wrote: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:31:13PM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: >=20 > > This was discussed a lot of the GNOME development list. I even posed i= t > > to our test users. A lot of Linux users complained, but non of the > > FreeBSD users did. I think some Linux distributions are shipping > > gdm-2.20, but we never did any testing of 2.20 with 2.23/2.24. If you > > want to resurrect it, and test it out, we will consider re-adding the > > port as gdm220. >=20 > Ok, I have played around a bit: >=20 > - The last gdm 2.20 from ports compiles, installs and runs fine without > a problem (as far as I can tell by now, since my test machine is still > working on the libxcb-update). If I'm not the only one who is > dissatisfied with gdm 2.24, re-adding 2.20 would be nice. >=20 > To sum it up again: > - XDMCP-Chooser would be there again > - listening for XDMCP-connects would be working again > - installing themes would be possible again > - gdmsetup would be back >=20 > - There are patches for gdm 2.24.1 that seem to solve the XDMCP-problem > on Fedora 10. I'm not a programmer, but I tested the patches and > managed to get gdm listen to UDP 177 again, but another problem > came up with the patched version of gdm that I wasn't able to solve. > So I was forced to give up for now. What problems did you see? Joe >=20 > Bug report: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3D476061 >=20 > Patches: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=3D327034 > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=3D125201&action=3Dview >=20 >=20 > thanks for listening. :) >=20 > Uwe >=20 >=20 --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-NcQf58ZIDhx/QsFQSq5i Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAkmEx/YACgkQb2iPiv4Uz4eLYACfVdTprgIHpNdMthqNZ7Rzq+gd 61YAnjGbzMndnT91lkcxF/Cr+27eP9k8 =H4FR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-NcQf58ZIDhx/QsFQSq5i--