On Wed, 9 Oct 1996, John Labovitz wrote:
> Chris R. Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I can start X by using "xinit" -- xdm STILL does NOTHING.
>
> finally found the magic incantation: simply add the following line to
> `/etc/X11/xdm/Xservers' (without the leading spaces):
>
> :0 my-x-
> :0 my-x-server local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0
>
> `my-x-server' in the above line can be anything you want; i suppose in
> a single-user environment it doesn't matter.
>
> according to the comments in that file, installing xbase should set up
> this file correctly, but it didn't for me; perhaps i
Thanks, Jon!! This fixed it!!
MY question now goes to the Debian maintainers.. WHY is this not WELL
documented?? This should certainly be in a info file somewhere!!
Thanks to all who replied.
Chris.
On Wed, 9 Oct 1996, John Labovitz wrote:
> Chris R. Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I
Chris R. Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I can start X by using "xinit" -- xdm STILL does NOTHING.
the problem is probably that xdm is running, but waiting for a
connection from an X server (or is it client? argh!). this seems to
be the default for xdm; you have to specially configure it t
> I can start X by using "xinit" -- xdm STILL does NOTHING. At bootup, xdm
> runs, but there are NO consoles running X (C-A-F1 through C-A-F6 give me
> other text consoles, and C-A-F7 through C-A-F12 do NOTHING). ps shows
> getty running on consoles 1-6.
>
> I've never used xdm before so I don't r
On Wed, 9 Oct 1996, Chris R. Martin wrote:
> I've never used xdm before so I don't really know much about it. I can
> kill the original xdm and type "xdm" again but this does nothing.
>
> What sort of things should I be looking for? What configuration files
> should I be looking at?
Stran
First of all, thanks to all who had comments, suggestions about my X
setup!
I have gotten X to run. It turns out that in /etc/X11/XF86Config the mouse
was setup as "/dev/mouse" when in fact I have no such device. I changed
this line to "/dev/cua0".
I can start X by using "xinit" -- xdm STILL doe
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