Re: XFree 4.0.1 and xdm
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Shao Zhang wrote:
> Sven Garbade [garbade@psy.uni-muenchen.de] wrote:
> > I´ve succesfully installed Woody and XFree 4.0.1-8 last weekend. Only
> > xdm shows a strange behavior. It starts nearly one minute after the
> > system has bootet. It´s possiblke to login to a console, and suddenly
> > xdm awakes. Any ideas?
The reason for this is in /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config. The following line is in
this file:
DisplayManager.randomFile: /dev/urandom
/dev/urandom generates random numbers but is not very fast. You can comment
this line out and then the default (/dev/mem) is used which is much faster.
Best regards,
Andreas
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