What does my display need entropy for? Don't I cause enough chaos myself? ;-)
Dave On 27-Apr-2001 Benjamin Black wrote: >> > 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. >> >> 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>> >> > > > in /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config, change the line > > > DisplayManager*randomFile: /dev/urandom > > > to > > > DisplayManager*randomFile: /dev/mem > > > your entropy won't be anywhere near as random, but xdm should start > up > very fast. xdm reads about a megabyte from the random file for > entropy > data, and that can take a while when reading from /dev/urandom. > > /ben > > > -- >|_ |_ | _ _ |_ PGP public key: >|http://www.wilykit.com/wilykit.key >|_) . |_)|(_|(_ |\ "Never rub another man's rhubarb." -- >|Joker > -- ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Dave Whiteley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 27-Apr-2001 Time: 16:29:39 Phone: 0113 233 2059 ---------------------------------- Random .sig :- Yes, we have consensus that we need 64 bit support. :-) -- Larry Wall in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----------------------------------
