Yes, gdm is evil :) It is not finished software, don't let the 1.0 version number fool you. My advice is not to use it. period. The next release (gdm2 I think) should be much better.
-Brad On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, John Haggerty wrote: > I have spent the past 5 hours bashing my brains out getting gdm to work on my > system and it never will! > I try to start it and it just displays a blank screen without the window > popping > > up. I tried to do as the README.Debian said and to change the symlinksso that > gdm and xdm are isolated in different runlevels. What I did was just to > delete > S99xdm (the symlink to /etc/init.d/xdm) so that it won't lock the system > anymore > > however it still will not display anything I have installed all of the > dependencies however it still hates me! > The binary for the login interface program works but does nothing on it's > own. I > > assume this is a problem with pam/config files. I looked at /etc/gdm/Init and > say :0 and Default which together has only a single program called xsetroot > and > some rather cryptic arguments. This appears to be broken or what? Could > someone > please help me? > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > Separate hype from hope on Wall Street. Visit http://www.streetforce.com > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
