Chris R. Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can start X by using xinit -- xdm STILL does NOTHING.
the problem is probably that xdm is running, but waiting for a
connection from an X server (or is it client? argh!). this seems to
be the default for xdm; you have to specially configure it to
Thanks, Jon!! This fixed it!!
MY question now goes to the Debian maintainers.. WHY is this not WELL
documented?? This should certainly be in a info file somewhere!!
Thanks to all who replied.
Chris.
On Wed, 9 Oct 1996, John Labovitz wrote:
Chris R. Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can
:0 my-x-server local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0
`my-x-server' in the above line can be anything you want; i suppose in
a single-user environment it doesn't matter.
according to the comments in that file, installing xbase should set up
this file correctly, but it didn't for me; perhaps i didn't
On Wed, 9 Oct 1996, John Labovitz wrote:
Chris R. Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can start X by using xinit -- xdm STILL does NOTHING.
finally found the magic incantation: simply add the following line to
`/etc/X11/xdm/Xservers' (without the leading spaces):
:0 my-x-server local
First of all, thanks to all who had comments, suggestions about my X
setup!
I have gotten X to run. It turns out that in /etc/X11/XF86Config the mouse
was setup as /dev/mouse when in fact I have no such device. I changed
this line to /dev/cua0.
I can start X by using xinit -- xdm STILL does
On Wed, 9 Oct 1996, Chris R. Martin wrote:
I've never used xdm before so I don't really know much about it. I can
kill the original xdm and type xdm again but this does nothing.
What sort of things should I be looking for? What configuration files
should I be looking at?
Strange
I can start X by using xinit -- xdm STILL does NOTHING. At bootup, xdm
runs, but there are NO consoles running X (C-A-F1 through C-A-F6 give me
other text consoles, and C-A-F7 through C-A-F12 do NOTHING). ps shows
getty running on consoles 1-6.
I've never used xdm before so I don't really
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