Re: XFree86 -configure and bad mouse problem
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 07:41:44AM -0400, Buddha Buck wrote:
> > Buddha Buck wrote:
> >
> > > At some point in the past, my /dev/mouse got to be a link to a named
> > > pipe created by gpm (I think it was "gpmdata", but I could be wrong.
> > >
> > > I don't use gpm, so there was noting to listen to on that pipe.
> > >
> > > When I ran "XFree86 -configure", it switched my monitor to a graphics
> > > mode, and hung forever (at least 8 hours). After several attempts to
> >
> > You could have switched to another console by pressing ctrl-alt-f1/f2
> > and stoped the X server. ctrl-alt-backspace could have been your friend,
> > too.
>
> Yup, I could have, if those had worked. ctrl-alt-delete didn't work
> either. The only thing that worked was a) telnetting in from another
> machine and killing the process, or b) pressing the reset button. Oh,
> yeah, pressing caps-lock and num-lock made the lights on my keyboard
> turn on and off, but while that is "normal", it isn't especially useful.
Yea. I'm inclined to blame the VGA probe, from what I've heard about
it - does a scary amount of futzing with the hardware. Or one of the
other detect modules. I wish there was some better way to debug
-configure...
> >
> > > [...]
> >
> > > Now I'm simply having trouble logging in with XDM...
> >
> > Probably You are - as me - missing the "sessreg" binary.
> > As long as no one here is willing :-) to reveal which packet that
> >
> > beast belongs to, try disabling the use of sessreg by
> > uncommenting out the "use-sessreg" line in /etc/X11/xdm/xdm.options.
>
> Taken care of... XDM is working much better now.
>
> >
> > Boris
> >
>
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