On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Art Fore wrote:

> Well, that fixed the problem with XFree86.0.log, but not the problem with
> XDM or KDM gui login. I had the path to the truetype fonts twice in the path
> statements. Would like to get truetype working, but will take it one step at
> a time.
>
> Emma Francis wrote: Look in your XF86Config file and see what font
> modules are loaded and what font path they're looking for Hope it helps,
> i had the same error and i managed to get rid of it Emma
> 
> Art Fore wrote:
> 
> > I have finally gotten NVIDIA going with XFree86 4.2, but that killed
> > the sound drivers. After updating, I can no longer get GUI login. If I
> > try XDM as the login manager, I get the login screen but it does not
> > accept keyboard input. I have to use cntrl +alt+bksp to get out. I can
> > login with the console and startx with no problem.
> >
> > If I try KDM (Suse 7.3), it goes directly to the console command
> > prompt for login. Does anyone have any idea what the problem is?
[snip]

Hi Art,
just a couple of guesses here:  xdm and kdm both need access permission to 
be given to the server.  If you are concerned with local access (ie host 
and client running on same machine) then you should investigate the 
contents of your /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers (I presume that for kdm, which I 
don't use, you would s/xdm/kdm/ ).  It should have a line at the bottom 
similar to:

:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X

There is also a file /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config which should have as the last 
line:

DisplayManager.requestPort:     0 

Please note that if you are considering remote X terminal connections then 
you will have to comment out this line.

Basically, the two most important files are the ones that I've listed
above.  There are two others: Xaccess and Xresources which should not be
as important, but you may want to look at them.

Let us know whether your xdm-config and Xservers files look similar to 
what I've outlined above.  (I'm surprised that SuSE doesn't set this up 
though).  Other things to consider are whether you have all the commands 
in your path, what do you get when you try:

[art]$ which X
[art]$ which xdm

?
-Oisin


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