Re: X startup problems

[Rick Hawkins <hawk@eyry.econ.iastate.edu>]

> What's the deal with xdm?  My understanding was that that was the program 
> used to login under X, without having to login from a console and then 
> issue a startx command.  During installation I told the program I wanted 
> to start X with xdm; I see a message when I boot about xdm being started, 
> and then I log in to a console.  Then if I try to use startx like I'm 
> used to, I get a bunch of error messages about some missing socket thing 
> (I'm not at home right now so I can't quote the exact error), then I get 
> an error message about not finding xinit.  Anybody know what I did wrong, 
> or what I need to do?

if xdm is running, you should be getting an xconsole, with no need for startx.  however, startx can be usefull for debugging.

type   /etc/init.d/xdm stop

to kill the running xdm.

I've had that missingsocket message on two diffeernet machiens from using the wrong xserver--i believe that SVGA will support almost anything, but using another server on a bcard i t t doesn't support will cause either the behavior you see, or a blinking console

rick



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