having trouble with xdm/xfs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-9?

2004-12-14 Thread Branden Robinson
[Followups set to debian-x.] Hi folks, I just wanted to bring the following information to the attention of those who may be frustrated by problems with the latest xdm and xfs packages. [...] [14 December] XFree86 4.3.0.dfsg.1-9 sneaked out with a couple of small but annoying bugs in it. S

Re: Trouble with xdm

1996-09-15 Thread Bill Roman
Marcelo Magallon wrote: > But if I run > xdm (from a root shell), it seems to start, but the login console never > shows up. Any pointers, please? This happened to me too, because I didn't configure xdm when I installed it (because I didn't have the right info at hand to configure the X server,

Trouble with xdm

1996-09-14 Thread Marcelo Magallon
Hi, I have just installed a minimal set of packages in order to run X11. Everything works fine: if I use startx I get X up and running (with twm as WM... how do I change that? I'd like to have fvwm2 as the default WM for all my users), and it works with xinit, too. But if I run xdm (fr