bad disk spot, and more troubles starting xdm
grr. After two years, i finally had a real crash. By this point, I was
suspicious enough to wipe the disk--there had been plenty of heat freezes
before I got the coooling in. Even got a kernel panic.
Anyway, about 60% of the way through formatting the / partition, the drive
ground for a while, much like a floppy read, then went on. I assume it found
a bad spot. But how do i check to make sure it recorded this?
Also, I don't seem to have xdm working again. I have the lines
# font server configuration file
# $XConsortium: config.cpp,v 1.7 91/08/22 11:39:59 rws Exp $
clone-self = on
use-syslog = off
allow-user-xsession
catalogue = /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/us
r
/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/
f
onts/100dpi/
error-file = /var/lib/xfs/xfs-errors
# in decipoints
default-point-size = 120
default-resolutions = 75,75,100,100
xfs-start-server
start-xfs
xdm-start-server
start-xdm
for /etc/X11/config, and /etc/X11/XF86Config is sufficient that startx works
as expected.
however, no xdm is started on boot, and
/etc/init.d/xdm start
merely starts an idle process that does nothing.
help!
rick
p.s.
I also can't start in other than 8bpp; attempting 16 just gives me 8, and 24
gives me an unusable screen. I really don't need them much, save that i run
staroffice4 in 16, as it's a color hog.
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