From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 13 14: 6:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.velosystems.net (cx144844-b.pv1.ca.home.com [24.9.137.174]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DBB537B41C for ; Sun, 13 Jan 2002 14:06:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from velosystems.net (jeeves [192.168.1.6]) by mail.velosystems.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 572AD50783; Sun, 13 Jan 2002 14:06:28 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 14:06:28 -0800 From: Steve Wingate To: "Joe Clarke" Cc: cliff@raggedclown.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: KDM, GDM Message-Id: <20020113140628.107a4ca7.steve@velosystems.net> In-Reply-To: <1010858931.25375.2.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <20020112142011.B254@raggedclown.net> <1010858931.25375.2.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Organization: Velosystems X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd4.5) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 12 Jan 2002 13:08:51 -0500 "Joe Clarke" wrote: > On Sat, 2002-01-12 at 08:20, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > Hello, > > GDM -- does nothing, just gives a grey screen > > I can't speak for KDM, but the problem you're seeing with GDM is fixed > in the latest version (2.2.5.4 as of this writing). I've installed the 2.2.5.4 gdm port but I think it still needs some work. For starters gdm expects to run as the user/group 'gdm' yet it doesn't create said user. I just get the grey screen and some others errors in the xdm log I've yet to track down. I do have kdm working somewhat. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message