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RE: XDM at Startup



Hi Bill,

I had the opposite happen to me!

I did a slink install & potato upgrade on a Dell Lattitude A300 - the xdm
script runs but doesn't run!
I then get a regular tty from which to "startx".  Not a problem, but
interesting that we had the opposite requirements and initial results!

I must say Debian's great on the laptop - much faster than SuSE or Mandrake
7 I had installed previously.

Mike.

> ----------
> From: 	Bill Caskey[SMTP:wcaskey@worldnet.att.net]
> Sent: 	22 March 2000 23:48
> To: 	debian-laptop@lists.debian.org
> Subject: 	XDM at Startup
> 
> I've just completed installing Debian 2.1 (CD from McCarty's book) on a
> Toshiba
> Satellite Pro 420CDT. I built a new kernel with apm enabled from the
> 2.2.14
> source and all peripherals are working correctly. I used xf86config to
> configure
> xfree86 and X starts/runs with no problems. Having done nothing else, when
> I
> rebooted I was surprised to find myself at the xdm login instead of a tty
> login. I've searched the FAQ and the Debian tutorial on X.
> '/etc/X11/config'
> does not exist. 'allow-user-xsession' is in '/etc/X11/Xsession.options'.
> There
> are no `/.xsession scripts on the system. I've grepped for start-xdm and
> xdm-start-server with no matches found. All of this doesn't match up with
> the
> info I found on the Debian home page and in the user-list archives. How is
> xdm
> starting? How do I get my default tty login back? My ultimate goal is to
> use
> KDE with kdm as my graphical login (compiling source while trying to
> solve/waiting for help with this problem). Thanks for your help...
> 
>  --Bill Caskey
> 
> 
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