bad disk spot, and more troubles starting xdm

1998-01-12 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
grr. After two years, i finally had a real crash. By this point, I was suspicious enough to wipe the disk--there had been plenty of heat freezes before I got the coooling in. Even got a kernel panic. Anyway, about 60% of the way through formatting the / partition, the drive ground for a

Re: bad disk spot, and more troubles starting xdm

1998-01-12 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: for /etc/X11/config, and /etc/X11/XF86Config is sufficient that startx works as expected. however, no xdm is started on boot, and /etc/init.d/xdm start merely starts an idle process that does nothing. Check your