========================================================================== Hi David
Thank-you and the others for your adept advice and your extra time. But, as you probably already know: answers unfortunately have a tendency of producing new questions. David Wright wrote: >My /etc/gpm.conf has (through gpmconfig) > >device=/dev/psaux >responsiveness=30 >type=ps2 >append="-R" > >The -R means, of course, that I have > >Section "Pointer" > Protocol "MouseSystems" > Device "/dev/gpmdata" > >in /etc/X11/XF86Config I have your setup now. Works fine except that the responsiveness has not changed in X. I set it to 70 and in text mode ( on a VC) it really moves fast but i noticed no change in X ( Still too slow zapping those pesty xbills ) . Also, when X starts it leaves the VC from where it was started with a screenfull of text. The last line says now: "Warning: /dev/gpmdata unable to get status of mouse fd (Invalid argument) " Is that normal ? David Wright wrote: >I'm not quite sure when you mean that you have to login, but two thoughts: >does your root password contain any funny characters that might be >misplaced because of your keyboard selection; I've yet to find how to >correct typos when typing a password into su. I stopped fooling around with xdm and first i will try to get the system working with startx, (as Joost Kooij had suggested it). The only noticeable difference is that there is no xconsole icon now. So i have an empty fvwm2 desktop and when i start xterm, i am still logged in as root but i can see from the prompt right away that the script /root/.bashrc was executed. When i try to remedy the situation by starting a login bash that will run my regular profile scripts, i cannot login as root: Invalid (or incorrect) login. The password is strictly alphanumeric and i couldn´t possibly misspell it a dozen times. Also, CAPS LOCK is not activated ( or otherwise i would login as ROOT and not as root ). I can login as another user just fine. Thank-you again Gabor Kontur [EMAIL PROTECTED] ========================================================================== -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
