On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 05:17:58PM -0800, James S. Kaplan wrote: > On Sunday 02 December 2001 16:23, Apparently Mr O said:
> > I just want to set up X manually and may just copy over my XF86Config from > > my RedHat box. > > Not really a good idea, unless you're really good, as SuSE and RH use totally > different directories, permissions and security. I think as long as the font directories are correct, and ownership/ permissions on XF86Config are kept as they originally were, there shouldn't be too much to worry about. Now, if you're changing your xdm setup, yes, there's a lot that can go wrong there, but just changing XF86Config shouldn't be such a big deal (unless RH and/or SuSE are making big changes in XFree86, which I find unlikely). > > Another thing I tried to do in the control panel was tell it to start me in > > text mode. It managed to not start KDM but still started XDM. > > Text mode boots to a generic vt, not xdm. I think he's saying, that's the problem. Just a couple things I like about an OS that doesn't rely on configurators beyong vi/emacs. BTW, Linux is a kernel; Debian, RH, Mandrake, Owl, Gentoo ... these are OSes. -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
