On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Ray Olszewski wrote:
First, let's clear up a bit of terminology.<snip>
Thanks for those clarifications. They clarify both how the terminology is used as well as what the computer is doing--much needed gap-filling information for someone like me.
You *might* be better served by switching to (what I think of as) the Slackware approach, adding lines to /etc/inittab for consoles 7 and 8 that run xdm (or actual X logins), and removing the xdm script symlink from your default runlevel directory. If you want to take this approach, any Slackware user here should be able to give you a sample of what the inittab entry should look like ... I *think* is is just --
7:23:respawn:/usr/bin/X11/xdm
-- but I can't be certain because I don't have a working system here that uses this method of starting xdm, so I'm drawing on a memory that is years old.
I picked around a bit further in /etc/X11/xdm and /usr/X11R6 trying to figure out how all this works. It's rather mind-boggling trying to puzzle out how all the relevant files relate to one another, not to mention how each is supposed to work on its own. Your slackwarish suggestion seems worth trying. My problem with it the way it stands, though, is that it invokes xdm, which doesn't give me any sort of menu for chosing between WM's. It's just a bare login window. If I log into it, I'll get another Gnome session (my main WM on this machine) rather than the ion3 session I want. I'll attempt now to puzzle out if there's a way to add other WM's to some sort of menu, starting with the man page.
PS - Did you give up on the sound card, or get it working? Or are you still in the process of trying?
I've pretty much given up since it managed to completely stump me as well as the experts via me. It seems to me that, were I finally to succeed with this card, it would be by defeating the BIOS's settings somehow. And that would be a lesson likely applicable only to this particular computer/mobo. That doesn't seem to justify further effort. Before going out and buying a PCI card though, I do want to try out a real SoundBlaster (16) someone is sending me. Since these are more clearly Linux-compatible, if it also will not work, I can rest more fully assured that the BIOS is the source of my problems with the Soundman card. Thanks for your help on that.
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