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Re: xdm 4.2.0pre1v1 troubles



martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org> writes:

> now i can get to start with startx and it works perfectly (and sooo
> fast thanks to the 4.2 ATI radeon driver). however, i can't get xdm
> to work. it displays the login window, when i enter the information,
> the screen goes black for about 5 seconds, and then returns to the
> login window again.

to get xdm to work you need to edit /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config. these are
the lines that i changed (shown are what i changed them to):

DisplayManager.pidFile:         /var/run/xdm.pid
DisplayManager._0.startup:      /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xstartup
DisplayManager._0.reset:        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xreset

the first line is probably a typo (it was xdm-pid). the other two are
GiveConsole and TakeConsole which don't exist in the debian package
(we have Xstartup and Xreset). with these changes xdm works for me.
and this was discussed before.

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