Re: Trouble with xdm

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Subject: Re: Trouble with xdm
From: roman@songdog.eskimo.com (Bill Roman)
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 20:50:48 -0700 (PDT)
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In-reply-to: <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.94.960914065151.4425C-100000@simula.efis.ucr.ac.cr> from "Marcelo Magallon" at Sep 14, 96 06:52:34 am

Marcelo Magallon wrote:
> But if I run 
> xdm (from a root shell), it seems to start, but the login console never 
> shows up. Any pointers, please?

This happened to me too, because I didn't configure xdm when I installed
it (because I didn't have the right info at hand to configure the X
server, and didn't want to get locked out).

You need to tell xdm what server to run.  In /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers, add:
:0 console-display local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0
and the problem should be solved.

-- 
Bill Roman  (roman@songdog.eskimo.com / roman@songdog.uucp)   running linux

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