Hello all! I'm having trouble with XFree86 4.2.0. My box is a IBM 300PL with an embedded S3 Trio 3D graphics card. I blew it away and installed Mandrake 8.2 -- no problems. I then upgraded to XFree86 4.2.0 (it was using 3.3.6 or something - why such an old version on a brand new release?)
Anyways, after tweaking XF86Config-4, my hardware seems to be recognized OK... I get a nice grey X-windowey screen with a window in the middle that says "welcome to <my computer name here>" and prompts for a login and password, as well as which window manager I'd like to use. Here's where it deviates from normal: No matter what window manager I choose, whenver I log in, the machine thinks for about 5 seconds, then gives me a new window at the top titled "Session Menu" and with a line that says "chooseSessionListWidget". There are 5 buttons listed: "Load Session", "Delete Session", "Break Lock", "default/Fail Safe", and "Cancel", and all but the last 2 options are greyed out. No matter which I press (or even if I click on "chooseSessionListWidget"), I get dumped back to the login prompt. No KDE for me. :( One other weird thing: There's an xterm session at the bottom right of the screen that says "Console Log for <my computer domain here>, but I can't interact with it at all. (except to scroll up and down, but that's useless as there's only 1 line...) That TOTALLY doesn't jive with my /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc file, which should be showing like 3 xterms and one xclock. (I don't have any .xinitrc files, so that should be used, right?) Also, I did look into the archives - someone had the same problem in November of 2000, but I didn't find the response to be very pertinent to the problem. Can anyone out there shed some light on this? Thanks for whatever help you can offer... -Jason Jason Earle Booz | Allen | Hamilton
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