I had a little time to work on this over the weekend. I followed through the prexdm script. It sets the DESKTOP and/or DISPLAYMANAGER variable(s) to kdm and loads the lang.sh variables then launches /usr/bin/kdm. Since kdm is a binary file I didn't get much further than this.
As an experiment I booted (init=3) and launched xdm from the command line. I was presented with the xdm graphical logon screen. After that my desktop appeared and seemed to function properly. When I logged out of KDE, the computer hung as the xserver shutdown. I never got my console screen back nor did I see it as the xserver shutdown. I had to power reset the computer to get it back. Of course, then had to check the filesystems on restart. I ran out of time or I was going to try gdm to see what happen, but I suspect it may be the same. Dale -----Original Message----- From: Michel D�nzer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: January 15, 2003 10:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [XFree86] System crashes when initdefault=5 On Mit, 2003-01-15 at 15:41, Schultz, Dale C. wrote: > > As I stated. The xserver and all apps do work fine and the system > appears quite stable as long as I ONLY use startx to bring up x. Is it possible that somehow a different DRM is used with xdm? -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
