On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Christopher Judd wrote: > > I recently installed 1.3.1 from CDROM; this is my first linux > installation. Most of it went pretty smoothly, but I still have a > couple of problems. One of that I can't get xdm to work. > (If I reconfigure to use startx everything works fine). > Running xdm -debug 2 gives the following output and then stops:
have your /etc/X11/config file the right lines for xdm: ---- start-xdm xdm-start-server ---- also, after change this lines, you need run xbase-configure. this utility will create the file /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers with a line indicating where xdm should start the xserver: :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -bpp 16 ^ ^^^^^ i think this could be your problem. hope this help []s, Mario O.de Menezes "Many are the plans in a man's heart, but IPEN-CNEN/SP is the Lord's purpose that prevails" http://curiango.ipen.br/~mario Prov. 19.21 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .