Re: Xdm

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

> 
> I suspect that your X is configured not quite right.  Blinking screen is 
> likely to be misconfiguration of VIDEO CARD.  Make sure you are using right 
> xserver for your card.  It's not a good idea to start xdm at boot, till you 
> made sure that everything is working in X.  BTW you can start xdm from console 
> just typing "xdm" as root.

Yeah, but what about the keyboard lockup?
Every time screen was going blank, nothing I typed appeared on the screen
later.

> Yes, wrong configuration of X is very likely.  Check you /etc/X11/XServer file.
> What video card are you using?  Someone can just send you his XF86Config and 
> you can extract relevant part.

No need for it. My X is configured pretty good right now. It may have been
that back then I had no idea what I was doing. Quite possible.
Andrew
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