On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 19:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 12:09:01PM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote: > > > 3. XDM is broken - It seems to be some kind of xauth problem; strangely > > > enough though, everything works fine if I use startx. I remember > > > Branden claiming XDM was broken at one point, but I thought that had > > > been fixed. > > > > Not related, the DRI repository is missing code for XdmAuth. gdm works. > > Umm, why? I'm not buying gdm with it's 40+ (!) package dependencies. > Seems to me that XAuth support is fairly important, esp. since 99% of all X > login widgets depend on it.
Interesting, didn't know there are 99 display managers besides gdm, all of them requiring it. :) > Any particular reason it was omitted? The DRI tree is cut down to the absolute minimum required for building the server and GL library and drivers. Plus, a source file (Wraphelp.c) needed for XdmAuth has dubious licensing and/or export conditions. I'll happily take a patch to add support for it, but I don't bother about it enough to work on it myself. -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
