Dave Whiteley writes: > I asked this question a short time ago, but with a (probably) > unhelpful subject header. I will try again. > > Can anyone give me a clue as to why xdm is very slow to start X > windowing. I have been using xdm for some time. Recent upgrades (to > testing?) seem to have changed its startup performance.
I has a similar story: Yesterday, I upgrade an intel box with woody. To mey display, gdm cease to work. Lauching /etc/init.d/gdm start, nothing seem to happens except a message "starting gdm" and if I switch to vt6, I see an x cursor. After scratching my head for one hour, I decide to throw away gdm and install xdm in place. Just the same, nothing happens after launching /etc/init.d/xdm start, but when I was about to give up, suddenly X start giving me a login console. In desperation, I subscribe and write to debian-user@lists.debian.org and some one told me that <<I also had this problem when I upgraded to X4. I can't remember exactly what I did, but I think I changed DisplayManager*authorize: from true to false in /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config>> Since I wasn't using xdm, I havent't try this, but you may. Further, I just have the idea of downloading the old gdm pacckage in potato and installing it: it works ! You may try this too (installing the old xdm) By the way, I don't have such problem on another machine running XFree-3.3.6, so I susdpect the problem come from X4 too. For all what people say and the fact that XFree-3.3.6 is no longer availmable in woody, X4 is *not* stable yet. -- PHAM Dinh Tuan | e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Laboratoire de Modelisation et Calcul | Tel: +33 4 76 51 44 23 BP 53, 38041 Grenoble cedex 9 (France) | Fax: +33 4 76 63 12 63 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
