On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 08:10:23AM +1100, matthew green wrote: > Patrick Welche writes: > > Had a go with the shiny new X (thanks!) on the sandy bridge laptop > > which no longer likes SNA but works with UX, and xdm seems to sit > > at the prompt waiting for something: > > ...
> is it a black input bar that doesn't appear to do anything? > (it probably does work -- did you try typing blind?) If you mean a text cursor input type thing inside the Login: text field, yes? Blind typing doesn't do anything... > the fix is to update /usr/X11/xdm/Xresources file -- it has > new required entries. i'm going to work on making this less > awful when it isn't updated, but i've been busy working on > the Mesa18 update :-) I stared at /etc/X11/xdm/Xresources, and https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/xdm/blob/master/config/Xresources.in and didn't spot additional fields (just our fonts are smaller and we fiddle with the NetBSD logo) - what should I be looking out for? Cheers, Patrick
