Re: xdm locks up keyboard and hogs cpu

2003-01-02 Thread Donald Spoon
Aravind Gottipati wrote: Hi Don, I finally figured out why xdm did not work for me. It took me about 2 years.. but I finally found it! I always used seven terminals (virtual) on the console, ALT F1 through F7, and the X server for xdm is hardcoded to start on the seventh terminal. Since the

Re: xdm locks up keyboard and hogs cpu

2002-12-31 Thread Donald Spoon
Aravind Gottipati wrote: > -SNIP- < One thing I noticed that was different between xdm on NetBSD and Debian was that NetBSD stored all its xdm configs in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm, but Debian stores it both in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm and /etc/X11/xdm (they refer to each other and its a mess in debi

Re: xdm locks up keyboard and hogs cpu

2002-12-31 Thread Aravind Gottipati
--- Donald Spoon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > problems, as you point out. I would "suspect" it is > a configuration > issue, since some installs work OK (at least one I > know about..mine :) > > I am talking here about that portion of XDM/GDM/KDM > that allows you to > display remote compute

Re: xdm locks up keyboard and hogs cpu

2002-12-31 Thread Donald Spoon
Aravind Gottipati wrote: Hi, I am running XFree86 Version 4.2.1.1 on debian unstable. I have tried to run xdm in the past and it has always ended up locking my keyboard and the Xfree86 process ends up taking upto 95% CPU. I had the same problem with gdm too. The mouse works fine, but the ke