Re: removing xdm
>From the desk of Moses Wildermuth. Money Talks Enterprises,
http://moneytalks.giftworldnet.com/
> On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 10:38:31AM -0500, Moses Wildermuth wrote:
>
>>>> dpkg -r xdm should work.
>>>>
>>>
>>
>> I tried this but it did not work due to dependency problem. Is it because
> dpkg --purge xdm
> If you don't know what youre are doing, use dselect to remove it, it
> should tell you about dependencies and remove them as well.
OK, I removed task-x-window and xdm. and now I can get in. but I can't run
startx script, I have to use xinit directly. Don't know why yet.
>> xdm was still running? How do I shut xdm down? It would be ok if the d*mn
> I dont think so. /etc/init.d/xdm stop
>> password rtn would work right. Can I just fix that?
> what password? can you describe a little more what happens in your
> xsession? I never have to enter my password in X after I fired it up.
As sson as Debian boots up, it started running xdm. This opened the X
screen and put a huge window in the middle of the screen with my machine's
name at the top. Welcome to Debian2.2-wolfysworld. This asks me for my
login and password. If I put incorrect values there, it says so, if I put
correct values there(as if logging in on a regular VT) it loops around and
asks me again and again and again forever. I don't know why this does not
happen to you. You are lucky I guess
I do
> have to enter my passPHRASE, but thats a completely different thing and
> related to ssh. _where_ do you have to enter your password, is there a
> window with a title?
yes
are you trying to log in as another user, as root,
does not matter which.
> did you edit your .xsession? If you give us detailed info, we give you
> answers.
No I did not. Others are familiar with this phenomenom on several lists, no
one knows a clean solution. Maybe I had one good idea come thru but I lost
the email. He said something about the password rtn being respawned over
and over in the .xsession.
>
>> After I get this going I need to tweak the screen mode settings a little.
>> I'm getting my depth of 8, but it's on some weird 640x1440 screen.
> Are you using the clgen driver?
yes
Then you have to fix the kernel to get a
> different mode. Ask the other clgen users, maybe by combining the efforts
> you can achieve the usability of the 2.0.x driver.
>
It is usable just wierd, not the right size. I keep getting the virtual
screen size and not just normal screen size. 8bits is fine, but 1024x768
would be nice.
> BTW, what happened to the updated docs?
You never answered where to send my suggestions.
> And anybody tested the new kernel images yet? I put atari images there
> today. mac failed to compile...
>
> Christian
Regards
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