From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Feb 18 15: 7: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D304311A64 for ; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 15:06:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from localhost (dfr@localhost) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.2/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA65808; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 23:06:55 GMT (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 23:06:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: Ted Spradley Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xdm doesn't work In-Reply-To: <199902182231.QAA11232@set.spradley.tmi.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Ted Spradley wrote: > Has anyone got xdm working? If I run startx from a root shell the X > server comes up just fine, with working xterms, but when I run xdm the > screen switches modes, draws the background, then goes blank and then > back to the vty. The xdm process is still there, but no X server > process, and no clue in the xdm-errors file. > > This is 4.0 current as of last week, with XFree86 built from the port > with Doug Rabson's patch, running on an AS200-4/233 with a Diamond S3 > Trio64 board and the XF86_S3 server. I haven't tried it to be honest. I tried kdm once which put up a login dialog but refused to start a session. I never managed to find the time to debug it though. I suggest recompiling xdm with debug information and digging in with gdb :-) -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message