Re: problems with xdm.
Paulo wrote,
> Last night I tried to get xdm working. As far as I understood all I should do
> was edit /etc/X11/config line from "no-start-xdm" to "start-xdm". I did that,
> booted and then I got xdm up. After that I logged as a user, logout, and then
> logged as root (to install something). After logging out, surprise: I got a
> screen with some thin vertical strips, no login window, no control.
> I couldn't manage to get a console, then I had to press reset (this was my
> first time, how sad ;-( ). After rebooting the same happened, the second logout
> mess my system. Does anyone knows what I am doing wrong? I am using hamm beta2
> (my cheapbytes cd's haven't arrived yet :-) ). Should I upgrade xbase, or
> something else, using ftp (I have a slow connection from home, thats why I
> haven't done that already)?
Your xserver is restarting, failing, and repeating. On one system exhibiting this failure, I found that I coudl give the three-fingered salute between failure & restart, so at least my filesystems were handled directly.
All I can suggest is to make sure that you're using matching versions of xserver* and xbase, and to use the XF86Setup utility that comnes as part of the vga16 server package.
rick
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