Re: Squeeze X bugs on old laptop
[sorry for the delay]
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 09:33:32 +0100, Claus Fischer wrote:
> An strace of xdm showed it was looking in /usr/X11R6/bin/X for the
> X server, but there is none.
> I created this directory and made a link to /usr/bin/X in it,
> and now xdm works. (It does not find its proper resources,
> though; the background is all black).
>
> So, it appears that the xdm binary needs to be adapted to the new
> situation.
>
xdm looks at /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers (I think) to know which server(s) to
start. That has been updated a while back to use /usr/bin/X. Maybe
your local config file didn't get updated?
Cheers,
Julien
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