Re: XDM cannot start desktop after Xorg upgrade

2013-06-19 Thread Leslie Jensen
2013-06-09 07:46, Leslie Jensen skrev: 2013-06-08 17:28, Polytropon skrev: On Sat, 08 Jun 2013 12:20:56 +0200, Leslie Jensen wrote: I've been using XDM as login manager for years. Since the latest Xorg upgrade, XDM cannot start XFCE4 as it used to. Strange that this happens after an upgr

Re: XDM cannot start desktop after Xorg upgrade

2013-06-08 Thread Leslie Jensen
2013-06-08 17:28, Polytropon skrev: On Sat, 08 Jun 2013 12:20:56 +0200, Leslie Jensen wrote: I've been using XDM as login manager for years. Since the latest Xorg upgrade, XDM cannot start XFCE4 as it used to. Strange that this happens after an upgrade. What initalization mechanism do you u

Re: XDM cannot start desktop after Xorg upgrade

2013-06-08 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 08 Jun 2013 12:20:56 +0200, Leslie Jensen wrote: > > I've been using XDM as login manager for years. Since the latest Xorg > upgrade, XDM cannot start XFCE4 as it used to. Strange that this happens after an upgrade. What initalization mechanism do you use for your X session? Do you use t

Re: xdm and gdm

2012-07-21 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 21 Jul 2012 20:40:44 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >> after loggin in it just exits. no .xsession-errors is created. no idea > >> where to seek error messages at all. > > > > Maybe errors are reported to the 1st virtual terminal > > where the XDM process outputs its messages to (cu

Re: xdm and gdm

2012-07-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Is this a typo? According to the Handbook, /usr/local/bin/gnome-session (without trailing 's') should be executed. indeed a typo. thank you. after loggin in it just exits. no .xsession-errors is created. no idea where to seek error messages at all. Maybe errors are reported to the 1st virtu

Re: xdm and gdm

2012-07-21 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 21 Jul 2012 19:19:15 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar wrote: > i run xdm normally. after logging it runs my $HOME/.xsession that starts > things like fvwm2 > > i wanted to run gnome-session once, changed fvwm2 to > /usr/local/bin/gnome-sessions ^ Is this a typo

Re: xdm-options - non-bsd user needs bsd rc.d advice

2011-03-04 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Polytropon wrote: > While I found that generic > UNIX knowledge was applicable everywhere, "Linux knowledge" > was not, as you could see from file names and locations, > procedures, and configuration statements which could not > be transferred 1:1 between the system

Re: xdm-options - non-bsd user needs bsd rc.d advice

2011-03-04 Thread Polytropon
Readers will surely see more and more people having similar reasons why those who happily use FreeBSD do not want to go back to Linux, or even worse, "Windows". I may include myself here, with the special case that I've never been a "Windows" user, so my mind is clean and healthy and unspoiled of M

Re: xdm-options - non-bsd user needs bsd rc.d advice

2011-03-04 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 03:28:10PM +0100, Christopher J. Ruwe wrote: > > Later, I tried OpenSolaris and FreeBSD and am now using FreeBSD due to > the same reasons as Chad Perrin stated: Being a power-user, wanting to > control things and (now diverting from Chad's reasons) wanting to use > technol

Re: xdm-options - non-bsd user needs bsd rc.d advice

2011-03-04 Thread Christopher J. Ruwe
On Thu, 03 Mar 2011 17:01:10 -0500 "John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell" wrote: > [snip] > If anyone would like to quickly comment I'd love to hear why bsd > would be a better choice than ubantu (for what audience it is better). > > Thanks all, > > John > > __

Re: xdm-options - non-bsd user needs bsd rc.d advice

2011-03-04 Thread RW
On Thu, 03 Mar 2011 17:01:10 -0500 "John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell" wrote: > Hi. I'm a BSD idiot I use [Debian] linux. > > rc.d question > > I'm trying to release a project (just below) to the widest possible > unix audience. I need a line in "/etc/inittab" and to have a > start/stop in

Re: xdm-options - non-bsd user needs bsd rc.d advice

2011-03-03 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 05:01:10PM -0500, John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell wrote: > > Hi. I'm a BSD idiot I use [Debian] linux. [snip] > > If anyone would like to quickly comment I'd love to hear why bsd would > be a better choice than ubantu (for what audience it is better). FreeBSD is

Re: XDM not showing login screen

2010-12-31 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 06:07:34PM +0100, Alain G. Fabry wrote: > Hi, I'm trying to get my XDMCP to work, but for some reason the XDM daemon > doesn't reply to XDMCP requests. > > I see the XDMCP packet arriving on my xdm server > > harley# tcpdump port 177 > tcpdump: verbose output suppressed,

Re: XDM not showing login screen

2010-12-31 Thread Manolis Kiagias
On 31/12/2010 7:07 μ.μ., Alain G. Fabry wrote: > Hi, I'm trying to get my XDMCP to work, but for some reason the XDM daemon > doesn't reply to XDMCP requests. > > I see the XDMCP packet arriving on my xdm server > > harley# tcpdump port 177 > tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for f

Re: Re: xdm and xdmcp

2010-01-22 Thread rhino64
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:30:47PM +0200, Manolis Kiagias wrote: > On 21/01/2010 8:54 μ.μ., rhin...@postmail.ch wrote: > > modifying Xaccess, starting xdm with parameter "udpPort 177". > > > > The command "netstat -a" never indicates that a process is listening on > > that port. > > > > The n

Re: xdm and xdmcp

2010-01-21 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:30:47PM +0200, Manolis Kiagias wrote: > On 21/01/2010 8:54 ??.??., rhin...@postmail.ch wrote: > > Hi All, > >Is-it possible to run xdm with remote access through XDMCP protocol on > > freebsd 8 ? > > > > Yes. I have an entire lab working this way :) > > > I have

Re: xdm and xdmcp

2010-01-21 Thread Manolis Kiagias
On 21/01/2010 8:54 μ.μ., rhin...@postmail.ch wrote: > Hi All, >Is-it possible to run xdm with remote access through XDMCP protocol on > freebsd 8 ? > Yes. I have an entire lab working this way :) > I have tried almost anything: commenting line about port 0 in xdm-config, > This is nee

Re: xdm freezes - 7.2-RELEASE installed

2009-05-05 Thread Andrew Gould
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 7:21 PM, Polytropon wrote: > On Tue, 5 May 2009 18:45:02 -0500, Andrew Gould > wrote: > > It's good, general advice. There are UPDATING files in various places > for > > various updates, I think, including /usr/src/. > > At least according to the history of problems with

Re: xdm freezes - 7.2-RELEASE installed

2009-05-05 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 5 May 2009 18:45:02 -0500, Andrew Gould wrote: > It's good, general advice. There are UPDATING files in various places for > various updates, I think, including /usr/src/. At least according to the history of problems with X that appeared on this list, /usr/ports/UPDATING hasn't receive

Re: xdm freezes - 7.2-RELEASE installed

2009-05-05 Thread Daniel Underwood
Absolutely! (Sent from my iPhone) On May 5, 2009, at 7:45 PM, Andrew Gould wrote: On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Daniel Underwood wrote: I thought /usr/ports/UPDATING is only created when you appraise your ports with a view toward updating. I.e, after a fresh install of 7.2 (not an upg

Re: xdm freezes - 7.2-RELEASE installed

2009-05-05 Thread Andrew Gould
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Daniel Underwood wrote: > I thought /usr/ports/UPDATING is only created when you appraise your > ports with a view toward updating. I.e, after a fresh install of 7.2 > (not an upgrade from 7.1), I didn't think the UPDATING file would be > very helpful. > It's good,

Re: xdm freezes - 7.2-RELEASE installed

2009-05-05 Thread Daniel Underwood
I thought /usr/ports/UPDATING is only created when you appraise your ports with a view toward updating. I.e, after a fresh install of 7.2 (not an upgrade from 7.1), I didn't think the UPDATING file would be very helpful. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: xdm freezes - 7.2-RELEASE installed

2009-05-05 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 06 May 2009 00:01:47 +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: > Taking this opportunity, allow me to remind to everyone that the > Handbook is always "work in progress" and it is always useful to check > again sections that you have already read, as new info is added > regularly. This latest addition

Re: xdm freezes - 7.2-RELEASE installed

2009-05-05 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Andrew Gould wrote: > On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Daniel Underwood wrote: > > >> Yep, that was it! I should have read the Handbook more thoroughly: >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/x-config.html#AEN6615 >> >> > > > me too ;-) > Taking this opportunity, allow me to r

Re: xdm freezes - 7.2-RELEASE installed

2009-05-05 Thread Andrew Gould
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Daniel Underwood wrote: > Yep, that was it! I should have read the Handbook more thoroughly: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/x-config.html#AEN6615 > me too ;-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing l

Re: xdm freezes - 7.2-RELEASE installed

2009-05-05 Thread Daniel Underwood
Yep, that was it! I should have read the Handbook more thoroughly: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/x-config.html#AEN6615 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscrib

Re: xdm freezes - 7.2-RELEASE installed

2009-05-05 Thread Andrew Gould
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Daniel Underwood wrote: > Just installed 7.2-RELEASE. After changing my /etc/ttys to default to > xdm and rebooting, my machine opens xdm, but I cannot type or press > enter. My keyboard isn't totally unresponsive, however, because I can > Ctrl+Alt+F# to another v

Re: xdm freezes - 7.2-RELEASE installed

2009-05-05 Thread Daniel Underwood
I don't have an xorg.conf file. When I installed 7.1-RELEASE on this laptop (exact same machine) I didn't need to configure an xorg.conf file. But I'll certainly try your advice. Thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.free

Re: xdm freezes - 7.2-RELEASE installed

2009-05-05 Thread Frederique Rijsdijk
Hi, Daniel Underwood wrote: Just installed 7.2-RELEASE. After changing my /etc/ttys to default to xdm and rebooting, my machine opens xdm, but I cannot type or press enter. My keyboard isn't totally unresponsive, however, because I can Ctrl+Alt+F# to another virtual terminal. Try adding:

Re: SOLVED: Re: xdm -debug 1 => Nothing left to do, exiting

2009-02-17 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I think the xdm-config file got overwritten during the port upgrade with the default (secure?) settings. I had to comment out the last setting in xdm-config % tail -3 /usr/local/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-config ! SECURITY: do not listen for XDMCP or Chooser

SOLVED: Re: xdm -debug 1 => Nothing left to do, exiting

2009-02-17 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 04:30:49PM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 10:13:08AM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > On 6.4-stable alpha I cannot get xdm to become a daemon, it exits > > immediately with empty /var/log/xdm.log. > > > > I tried to use -debug option, and thi

Re: xdm -debug 1 => Nothing left to do, exiting

2009-02-17 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 10:13:08AM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > On 6.4-stable alpha I cannot get xdm to become a daemon, it exits > immediately with empty /var/log/xdm.log. > > I tried to use -debug option, and this is the output: > > # xdm -debug 1 > DisplayManager.errorLogFile/DisplayMana

Re: XDM login freezes on boot

2009-02-11 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, Da Rock wrote: On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 20:32 +1000, Warren Liddell wrote: AMD64 4gig RAM FreeBSD 7.1 KDE 4.2 I've noticed of late when i have had the misfortune of rebooting this machine due to severre storms and blackouts, when it boots everything loads fine, xdm initates a

Re: XDM login freezes on boot

2009-02-11 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, Warren Liddell wrote: AMD64 4gig RAM FreeBSD 7.1 KDE 4.2 I've noticed of late when i have had the misfortune of rebooting this machine due to severre storms and blackouts, when it boots everything loads fine, xdm initates an i get the standard logon screen, however, you c

Re: XDM login freezes on boot

2009-02-11 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 08:49:51PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: > On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 20:32 +1000, Warren Liddell wrote: > > AMD64 4gig RAM FreeBSD 7.1 KDE 4.2 > > > > I've noticed of late when i have had the misfortune of rebooting this > > machine due to severre storms and blackouts, when it boots e

Re: XDM login freezes on boot

2009-02-11 Thread Da Rock
On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 20:32 +1000, Warren Liddell wrote: > AMD64 4gig RAM FreeBSD 7.1 KDE 4.2 > > I've noticed of late when i have had the misfortune of rebooting this > machine due to severre storms and blackouts, when it boots everything > loads fine, xdm initates an i get the standard logon s

Re: XDM login freezes on boot

2009-02-11 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 08:32:20PM +1000, Warren Liddell wrote: > AMD64 4gig RAM FreeBSD 7.1 KDE 4.2 > > I've noticed of late when i have had the misfortune of rebooting this > machine due to severre storms and blackouts, when it boots everything > loads fine, xdm initates an i get the standard

Re: xdm doesn't run as daemon

2009-02-09 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 09:39:23PM +0100, Roger Olofsson wrote: > > > Anton Shterenlikht skrev: > > After upgrades of 23-24 Jan 2009 xdm is not working: > > > > # xdm > > # ps ax|grep xdm > > 75632 p1 S+ 0:00.01 grep xdm > > # cat /var/log/xdm.log > > # > > > > So no xdm daemon. > > > >

Re: xdm doesn't run as daemon

2009-02-06 Thread Roger Olofsson
Anton Shterenlikht skrev: After upgrades of 23-24 Jan 2009 xdm is not working: # xdm # ps ax|grep xdm 75632 p1 S+ 0:00.01 grep xdm # cat /var/log/xdm.log # So no xdm daemon. My system: FreeBSD 6.4-STABLE alpha, xdm-1.1.8_1. Any ideas? ---

Re: xdm doesn't run as daemon

2009-02-05 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 08:01:25AM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: > > Anton Shterenlikht writes: > > > After upgrades of 23-24 Jan 2009 xdm is not working: > > > > # xdm > > # ps ax|grep xdm > > 75632 p1 S+ 0:00.01 grep xdm > > # cat /var/log/xdm.log > > > Any ideas? > > 1) May w

Re: xdm woes

2007-11-20 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Wojciech Puchar wrote: pushing aqnd releasing the power button, so the OS shuts down using ACPI). This happens every time. No matter what window manager I use. But it only happens when I use xdm. If I start X with startx, it shuts down cleanly and returns to the tty from which I ran startx. h

Re: xdm woes

2007-11-20 Thread Wojciech Puchar
pushing aqnd releasing the power button, so the OS shuts down using ACPI). This happens every time. No matter what window manager I use. But it only happens when I use xdm. If I start X with startx, it shuts down cleanly and returns to the tty from which I ran startx. how you start xdm? from

Re: xdm fails! can't find "pcidata"

2007-08-22 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 12:16:10AM +0400, Boris Samorodov wrote: > On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 12:11:47 -0700 Gary Kline wrote: > > > I just rebooted my DNS server and now X fails. I'm pretty sure I > > did everything re the xorg instructions in UPDATING. The error > > message in /var/lob/Xo

Re: xdm fails! can't find "pcidata"

2007-08-22 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 12:11:47 -0700 Gary Kline wrote: > I just rebooted my DNS server and now X fails. I'm pretty sure I > did everything re the xorg instructions in UPDATING. The error > message in /var/lob/Xorg.0.log says exactly:: > (II) Loader running on freebsd > (II) Load

Re: xdm fails! can't find "pcidata"

2007-08-22 Thread Yuri Pankov
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 12:11:47PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > I just rebooted my DNS server and now X fails. I'm pretty sure I > did everything re the xorg instructions in UPDATING. The error > message in /var/lob/Xorg.0.log says exactly:: > > (II) Loader running on freebsd

Re: XDM Logon

2005-06-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Korn, Karl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a fresh installed version of BSD 5.4 loaded onto a machine and > when I attempt to logon using XDM it will not log me in. I'm using the > correct credentials and it looks as if I'm being let into the system but > the logon screen comes back up. A

Re: Xdm & Securelevels revisited

2005-01-27 Thread markzero
> > securelevel is raised before xdm can start which causes fireworks. > just a thought: if you raise the securelevel after xdm has started and it > dies, would you get fireworks again? > I'm leaving the text consoles open for that very reason. If xdm dies, tries to restart (it will try every 30

Re: Xdm & Securelevels revisited

2005-01-27 Thread Xian
On Friday 28 January 2005 01:13, markzero wrote: > securelevel is raised before xdm can start which causes fireworks. just a thought: if you raise the securelevel after xdm has started and it dies, would you get fireworks again? -- /Xian "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by

Re: xdm background ?

2004-10-17 Thread h
On Monday 18 October 2004 03:32, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: > > i'm trying to display the picture in the background of the login box > > and console log, and have it displayed until my wm shows up, kde > > style. how do i achieve this ? > > Are you using the "-root" switch as well with xv? thanks,

Re: xdm background ?

2004-10-17 Thread Conrad J. Sabatier
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 01:30:24 +0200, h <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > that displays the picture until i press a key, then displays the login > box with the awful black and white frame in the background. > > i'm trying to display the picture in the background of the login box > and console log, and h

Re: xdm background ?

2004-10-17 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 01:30:24 +0200, h <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > that displays the picture until i press a key, then displays the login box > with the awful black and white frame in the background. > > i'm trying to display the picture in the background of the login box and > console log, and ha

Re: xdm background ?

2004-10-17 Thread h
that displays the picture until i press a key, then displays the login box with the awful black and white frame in the background. i'm trying to display the picture in the background of the login box and console log, and have it displayed until my wm shows up, kde style. how do i achieve this ?

Re: xdm background ?

2004-10-17 Thread Conrad J. Sabatier
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 00:32:05 +0200, h <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > how do you add a background picture to xdm ? > > so far i tried xli and xv in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0, both > don't allow the login box to pop up. Add the "-quit" switch to xv to have it exit after setting the root window

Re: xdm

2004-02-11 Thread Albert Shih
Le 11/02/2004 à 15:51:55+0100, Christer Solskogen a écrit > Is it possible to configure XDM so it wont run localy? like, X does not > start on the machine running it. > Modify the file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers and make comment the line #:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X Regards. --

Re: Xdm/Kdm/Gmd

2003-12-04 Thread Charles Howse
On Thursday 04 December 2003 02:39 pm, Payne wrote: > Charles Howse wrote: > >On Thursday 04 December 2003 01:07 pm, Payne wrote: > >>Hi, > >> > >>Thanks for the help early, I am wanting to have either xdm/kdm/gdm to > >>start once my system it up, how can I do this? Also which is best? > > > >http

Re: Xdm/Kdm/Gmd

2003-12-04 Thread Payne
Charles Howse wrote: On Thursday 04 December 2003 01:07 pm, Payne wrote: Hi, Thanks for the help early, I am wanting to have either xdm/kdm/gdm to start once my system it up, how can I do this? Also which is best? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-xdm.html This

Re: Xdm/Kdm/Gmd

2003-12-04 Thread Charles Howse
On Thursday 04 December 2003 01:07 pm, Payne wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for the help early, I am wanting to have either xdm/kdm/gdm to > start once my system it up, how can I do this? Also which is best? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-xdm.html This will detail the proces

Re: xdm config files overwritten after upgrading Xfree86-clients from ports

2003-09-08 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Matthew Seaman wrote: On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 01:45:03PM +0200, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: Matthew Seaman wrote: However, I just keep a backup copy of the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm directory handy: # cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/ # rsync -avx --delete xdm/ xdm.bak/ Cheers, Matthew Ok, this would help

Re: xdm config files overwritten after upgrading Xfree86-clients from ports

2003-09-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 01:45:03PM +0200, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: > Matthew Seaman wrote: > >However, I just keep a backup copy of the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm > >directory handy: > > > ># cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/ > ># rsync -avx --delete xdm/ xdm.bak/ > > > > Cheers, > > > > Matthew >

Re: xdm config files overwritten after upgrading Xfree86-clients from ports

2003-09-05 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Matthew Seaman wrote: On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 12:59:38PM +0200, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: Hi lists, I upgraded Xfree86-clients from ports using portupgrade today and noticed that xdm was no longer working afterwards. After some searching i found that the config files in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm had

Re: xdm config files overwritten after upgrading Xfree86-clients from ports

2003-09-05 Thread Mike Remski
Good Morning Heinrich. Yes, that's pretty much expected behaviour. Each port is different in the way that it treats it's configuration files. Some of them will have a "file.config.sample" that you usually copy over to "file.config" and modify. That way you don't lose your changes, but you ca

Re: xdm config files overwritten after upgrading Xfree86-clients from ports

2003-09-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 12:59:38PM +0200, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: > Hi lists, > > I upgraded Xfree86-clients from ports using portupgrade today and noticed > that xdm was no longer working afterwards. > After some searching i found that the config files in > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm had been overwr

Re: XDM

2003-03-20 Thread Marcel Stangenberger
> After problems with GDM after updating to latest XFree86 et al, I am > using XDM as a temporary solution. However, I have a xconsole window > continuously open...Is there a way I can remove this? Not even sure if > it needs to stay open or not... > You can turn this off by commenting the line in

Re: XDM on multiple virutal X screens ( ALT-F9,ALT-F10...)

2003-02-28 Thread User Tysken
Hi, > Adding the other entry to XServers does not have anything to do > with running it on multiple monitors. > > There are three connectivity sections to every X window. > Adding a line to Xservers (to my knowlege) does not have > anything to do with running on two different monitors in > a dual

Re: XDM on multiple virutal X screens ( ALT-F9,ALT-F10...)

2003-02-28 Thread User Tysken
Hi, On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 10:09:24AM +1030, Malcolm Kay wrote: > Noticed this, out of curiosity decided to try it. > OK. This list is a good place to lurk on and read the topics that find intresting. > Then forgot second X display was installed and > next time the machine was started did not

RE: XDM on multiple virutal X screens ( ALT-F9,ALT-F10...)

2003-02-26 Thread Aaron Burke
(snip) > > You have searched well enough. I remember playing with this > > for about a week in the past. (when I first got it working). > > Its amazing how easy the change is to make though. There are a few good reasons I can think of. Simply running an other instance of X-Windows takes up more re

Re: XDM on multiple virutal X screens ( ALT-F9,ALT-F10...)

2003-02-26 Thread User Tysken
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 06:03:50AM -0800, Aaron Burke wrote: > This is the only file that you have to modify, however you need > to make two seperate mods. > > The default file just says > :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X > > Just change it to say the following. > :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 > :1 loca

RE: XDM on multiple virutal X screens ( ALT-F9,ALT-F10...)

2003-02-26 Thread Aaron Burke
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of User Tysken > Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 5:32 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: XDM on multiple virutal X screens ( ALT-F9,ALT-F10...) > > > Hi, > > I have searched some on google and on xfree86.o

Re: xdm across different networks

2003-02-06 Thread Glenn Johnson
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 02:21:08PM -0800, Mike Thompson wrote: > Glenn, > > I'm not 100% certain, but the X11 servers on your xxx.xxx.86.0 subnet > my be relying upon XDMCP broadcasts to locate the FreeBSD machine > on the same subnet. Broadcasts cannot be routed between subnets > and therefore y

Re: xdm across different networks

2003-02-06 Thread Mike Thompson
Glenn, I'm not 100% certain, but the X11 servers on your xxx.xxx.86.0 subnet my be relying upon XDMCP broadcasts to locate the FreeBSD machine on the same subnet. Broadcasts cannot be routed between subnets and therefore your Windows XP system on your xxx.xxx.87.0 subnet won't be responded to

Re: XDM daemon error

2003-01-09 Thread Marcel Stangenberger
> I have come to an error in my FreeBSD Box. I edited the default > /etc/ttys file for running the XDM daemon on a virtual terminal by changing > the "off" to "on". Therefore, the entry is enabled. When I shutdown and > restarted, my OS went crazy. The screen goes from the running script t

Re: xdm fails at startup

2002-12-19 Thread malcolm kay
malcolm kay wrote: Finarfin wrote: I have a 'virgin' install of 4.7. When I boot, all the text mode stuff I want runs fine. I would like to show some stuff to others using X, but it won't start. In my /etc/ttys file, I had the following line installed by the installation process: ttyv8 "/u

Re: xdm keeps showing me login window

2002-12-09 Thread Franklin Pierce
- Original Message - From: "Ali S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 02:32:14 -0800 (PST) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: xdm keeps showing me login window > i have installed freebsd 4.7 on > compaq proliant 1600 with cirrus 5446 vga card > i have configured X with "xf86config" >

Re: xdm keeps showing me login window

2002-12-09 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 12:31:06PM -, local.freebsd.questions wrote: > On Mon, 9 Dec 2002 11:00:54 - , [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (Matthew Seaman) wrote: > > >On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 02:32:14AM -0800, Ali S. wrote: > >> i have installed freebsd 4.7 on > >> compaq proliant 1600 with cirrus 5446 v

Re: xdm keeps showing me login window

2002-12-09 Thread local.freebsd.questions
On Mon, 9 Dec 2002 11:00:54 - , [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew Seaman) wrote: >On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 02:32:14AM -0800, Ali S. wrote: >> i have installed freebsd 4.7 on >> compaq proliant 1600 with cirrus 5446 vga card >> i have configured X with "xf86config" >> >> but >> when i run xdm and ent

Re: xdm keeps showing me login window

2002-12-09 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 02:32:14AM -0800, Ali S. wrote: > i have installed freebsd 4.7 on > compaq proliant 1600 with cirrus 5446 vga card > i have configured X with "xf86config" > > but > when i run xdm and enter my username &password > it refreshes the screen and shows me the login > window ag

Re: xdm is not working in 4.6-RELEASE

2002-09-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 02:59:27PM -0500, Eduardo Viruena Silva wrote: > I have installed FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE in a new computer, > I also installed X and KDE, verything is working fine > except xdm. > > I'm sure X is working because "startx" works. > > In my /etc/ttys, I changed: > > ttyv8

Re: xdm initialization problems

2002-07-15 Thread Miroslav Pendev
> From: Guy F. Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri Jul 12, 2002 01:57:53 PM US/Eastern > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: > Hi Guy! > > Current serial number in output stream: 59 > >AUDIT: Thu Jul 11 18:05:13 2002: 194 X: client 1 rejected from local host > > Aut

RE: xdm initialization problems

2002-07-12 Thread gfb
From: Guy F. Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri Jul 12, 2002 01:57:53 PM US/Eastern To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: >Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Problems initializing xdm >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 11:15:57 -0500 (CDT) > >Can anyone please h