From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 26 9:32:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from majordomo2.umd.edu (majordomo2.umd.edu [128.8.10.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AAF137B9A6 for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 09:32:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from culverk@wam.umd.edu) Received: from rac5.wam.umd.edu (root@rac5.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.145]) by majordomo2.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA26407; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 12:32:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rac5.wam.umd.edu (sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rac5.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA08256; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 12:32:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (culverk@localhost) by rac5.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA08250; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 12:32:13 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: rac5.wam.umd.edu: culverk owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 12:32:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver To: Stan Brown Cc: Free BSD Questions list Subject: Re: sdm problems on new install In-Reply-To: <200006261627.JAA08628@netcom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I don't know why your window manager isn't working, but most liklely those performance monitors need recompiled. A lot has changed between 3.x and 4.0. ================================================================= | Kenneth Culver | FreeBSD: The best NT upgrade | | Unix Systems Administrator | ICQ #: 24767726 | | and student at The | AIM: muythaibxr | | The University of Maryland, | Website: (Under Construction) | | College Park. | http://www.wam.umd.edu/~culverk/| ================================================================= On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Stan Brown wrote: > I have a machine that I am installing 4.0 STABLE on. This machine used > to run 3.4 STABLE just fine. > > I have set up the files in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm, so that several > machine preformance programs run on the login screen. > > However these don't seem to be working on the new machien. Also when I > start xdm, and atenmpt to login, it fails, even as root. An atempt is > made to satrt the window manager, but it fails, and of coures xdm pops > back up. > > I am getting errors in the xdm error file about not having permission > to acces display 0:0. I don;t remeber having this poblme befor. > > If I do startx, the X comes up. > > What am I doing wrong? > > > -- > Stan Brown stanb@netcom.com 404-996-6955 > Factory Automation Systems > Atlanta Ga. > -- > Look, look, see Windows 95. Buy, lemmings, buy! > Pay no attention to that cliff ahead... Henry Spencer > (c) 1998 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message