Re: Why is xdm slow to start? OT
What does my display need entropy for? Don't I cause enough chaos
myself? ;-)
Dave
On 27-Apr-2001 Benjamin Black wrote:
>> > I asked this question a short time ago, but with a (probably)
>> > unhelpful subject header. I will try again.
>> >
>> > Can anyone give me a clue as to why xdm is very slow to start X
>> > windowing. I have been using xdm for some time. Recent upgrades
>> > (to
>> > testing?) seem to have changed its startup performance.
>>
>> Yesterday, I upgrade an intel box with woody. To mey display, gdm
>> cease to work. Lauching /etc/init.d/gdm start, nothing seem to
>> happens
>> except a message "starting gdm" and if I switch to vt6, I see an x
>> cursor. After scratching my head for one hour, I decide to throw
>> away
>> gdm and install xdm in place. Just the same, nothing happens after
>> launching /etc/init.d/xdm start, but when I was about to give up,
>> suddenly X start giving me a login console. In desperation, I
>> subscribe and write to debian-user@lists.debian.org and some one
>> told
>> me that
>>
>> <<I also had this problem when I upgraded to X4.
>> I can't remember exactly what I did, but I think I changed
>> DisplayManager*authorize: from true to false in
>> /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config>>
>>
>
>
> in /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config, change the line
>
>
> DisplayManager*randomFile: /dev/urandom
>
>
> to
>
>
> DisplayManager*randomFile: /dev/mem
>
>
> your entropy won't be anywhere near as random, but xdm should start
> up
> very fast. xdm reads about a megabyte from the random file for
> entropy
> data, and that can take a while when reading from /dev/urandom.
>
> /ben
>
>
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E-Mail: Dave Whiteley <d.l.whiteley@ee.leeds.ac.uk>
Date: 27-Apr-2001
Time: 16:29:39
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