Hi Bill, I had the opposite happen to me!
I did a slink install & potato upgrade on a Dell Lattitude A300 - the xdm script runs but doesn't run! I then get a regular tty from which to "startx". Not a problem, but interesting that we had the opposite requirements and initial results! I must say Debian's great on the laptop - much faster than SuSE or Mandrake 7 I had installed previously. Mike. > ---------- > From: Bill Caskey[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 22 March 2000 23:48 > To: [email protected] > Subject: XDM at Startup > > I've just completed installing Debian 2.1 (CD from McCarty's book) on a > Toshiba > Satellite Pro 420CDT. I built a new kernel with apm enabled from the > 2.2.14 > source and all peripherals are working correctly. I used xf86config to > configure > xfree86 and X starts/runs with no problems. Having done nothing else, when > I > rebooted I was surprised to find myself at the xdm login instead of a tty > login. I've searched the FAQ and the Debian tutorial on X. > '/etc/X11/config' > does not exist. 'allow-user-xsession' is in '/etc/X11/Xsession.options'. > There > are no `/.xsession scripts on the system. I've grepped for start-xdm and > xdm-start-server with no matches found. All of this doesn't match up with > the > info I found on the Debian home page and in the user-list archives. How is > xdm > starting? How do I get my default tty login back? My ultimate goal is to > use > KDE with kdm as my graphical login (compiling source while trying to > solve/waiting for help with this problem). Thanks for your help... > > --Bill Caskey > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
