Re: X won't log in (was Re: Xpmac can't find font 'fixed')

[Steven Schlansker <steven@fgsoft.net>]

On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 09:02  AM, Michel Dänzer wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 17:20, Frank Murphy wrote:
> > > To those who wanted the logs, it was actually at /var/log/xdm.log
> > > And, to those who are saying that it's unsupported, the 'real' X 
> > > server
> > > doesn't seem to support valkyrie video devices.
> >
> > The Xpmac seems to only log to the display manager, not to the Xfree86
> > location.
>
> I guess Xpmac doesn't write any log file at all and xdm just logs its
> stdout/stderr.
>
> > But Xpmac is unsupported in Debian (which is why you had to compile
> > it yourself), so that means that valkyrie video devices are 
> > unsupported in
> > Debian.
>
> Unsupported? The fbdev driver should work with it, at least with
> valkyriefb.

But nobody can tell me how to get it to work.

> > But you might still get it to work. If you can, perhaps you could
> > make a package for others who might need it.
>
> No, Xpmac was a hack that was supposed to die a long time ago. Compared
> to the current XFree86 server, the list of its missing features and
> added bugs must be truly horrifying.
>
>
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> developer
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