Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:51:51 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Uwe Laverenz <uwe@laverenz.de> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GDM 2.24.1 and XDMCP Message-ID: <1233438711.38049.6.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> 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>
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--=-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--
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