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Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 11:41:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To: Philip Paeps <philip@paeps.cx>
Cc: "'Stijn Hoop'" <stijn@win.tue.nl>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: RE: GDM shows blank screen
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On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, Philip Paeps wrote:

>
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
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> # -- GDM blank screen -- #
>
> > This apparently is an issue with XFree86-4.x.x and GDM. I really don't
> > understand why, but I've got the same problem. On RedHat
> > boxes, GDM works,
>
> The funny thing is, XFree86-3.3.6 (the one 'default' in FreeBSD) has the same
> issue.  I've been fiddling with just about everything (including running the
> linux binary) to no avail.
>
> > and as far as I can tell, they use the same sources, so it's probably
> > a linuxism that GDM relies upon. It's over my head though, so
> > I haven't looked any further than that.
>
> Indeed.  GNU's not UNIX ... might it be linux though? ;-)
>
>
> > You could try kdm for a prettier login daemon.
>
> I'll have a look into that :-)  If anyone knows how to figure GDM out though
> ... I'd love to know how.

The pkg-descr says it requires a recent 4.4-STABLE and XFree86 3.3.6.
Since I run 4.1.0, I'm out.  Others recommend updating all the libraires
gdm depends on to their latest versions to solve this problem (assuming
you're running 3.3.6 with 4.4-STABLE).

Joe

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