On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 07:41:44AM -0400, Buddha Buck wrote: > > Buddha Buck wrote: > > > > > At some point in the past, my /dev/mouse got to be a link to a named > > > pipe created by gpm (I think it was "gpmdata", but I could be wrong. > > > > > > I don't use gpm, so there was noting to listen to on that pipe. > > > > > > When I ran "XFree86 -configure", it switched my monitor to a graphics > > > mode, and hung forever (at least 8 hours). After several attempts to > > > > You could have switched to another console by pressing ctrl-alt-f1/f2 > > and stoped the X server. ctrl-alt-backspace could have been your friend, > > too. > > Yup, I could have, if those had worked. ctrl-alt-delete didn't work > either. The only thing that worked was a) telnetting in from another > machine and killing the process, or b) pressing the reset button. Oh, > yeah, pressing caps-lock and num-lock made the lights on my keyboard > turn on and off, but while that is "normal", it isn't especially useful.
Yea. I'm inclined to blame the VGA probe, from what I've heard about it - does a scary amount of futzing with the hardware. Or one of the other detect modules. I wish there was some better way to debug -configure... > > > > > [...] > > > > > Now I'm simply having trouble logging in with XDM... > > > > Probably You are - as me - missing the "sessreg" binary. > > As long as no one here is willing :-) to reveal which packet that > > > > beast belongs to, try disabling the use of sessreg by > > uncommenting out the "use-sessreg" line in /etc/X11/xdm/xdm.options. > > Taken care of... XDM is working much better now. > > > > > Boris > > > > -- > Buddha Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] > "Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our > liberty depends upon the chaos and cacophony of the unfettered speech > the First Amendment protects." -- A.L.A. v. U.S. Dept. of Justice > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Dan /--------------------------------\ /--------------------------------\ | Daniel Jacobowitz |__| SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer __ Carnegie Mellon University | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | \--------------------------------/ \--------------------------------/
