Xdm

[Andrew Ivanov <c680789@showme.missouri.edu>]

I'm wondering if a wrong configuration on video card and/or monitor, when
used with xdm (not startx), could lock up the machine.
Here is what happened: couple of month ago when I installed X for the
first time, I configured xdm to start at the boot.
My machine worked fine with startx before. However, as soon as I rebooted,
and I got prompted for boot...not even with xdm...my screen started to
blink from blank to non-blank, and keyboard was locked up during blank
screen. Non-blank meaning it showed me boot-up messages.

Nothing I wasnt able to fix with cfdisk and reformatting of primary
partition...was my 3rd day of using Deb. so..
But I want to give xdm another chance, and was wondering if something like
that could have happened because of wrong configuration of X?

TIA,
 Andrew




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