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Re: A mess with startx, xdm and gnome



on Sun, May 06, 2001 at 10:54:49AM +0000, Victor (vdemart@supereva.it) wrote:
> I had installed gnome and xdm under potato 2.2r3 and XFree86 3.3.6 on my 
> workstation . Sometimes I used startx and some other time xdm to launch gnome 
> and all had been working great. 
>
> Yesterday, because I wanted to install the Gimp 1.2 resorting to the debian 
> unstable site  packages, I issued the  "apt-get gimp1.2" command which, as 
> well as downloading and installing the required program, has installed many 
> other libraries and, above all, the entire set of programs relating to 
> XFree86 4.0.3.
>
> It all worked fine, all the pieces of software were configured BUT now I 
> don't have any longer both startx and xdm.
>
> The only thing I can do is start "XF86_SVGA" which shows me a "useless" 
> graphic display (the same when you start for instance startx) .
>
> Please HELP!
>
> Is there anyone able to explain how can I have the all thing fixed in order 
> to have startx, xdm and finally gnome working.

Whitespace is good.  Give a linespace between your paragraphs, they're
far easier to read.

You might take a look at:

    http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/xdm-disable.html 

Cheers.

-- 
Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com>    http://kmself.home.netcom.com/
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