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- From: operjsl@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU
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- Subject: HELP X gods! .99 broke my xdm!
- Date: 15 Dec 1992 05:42:46 GMT
- Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
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- I just finished compiling 0.99 with tcp. I had to do some fun patching
- on my own, because my ethernet card is an ne2000. I got the driver code
- from Matt Welsh at Cornell. Anyway, I set up the tcp code like I did for
- 0.98.5, applied to emergency patches to .99 posted by linus, did the
- appropriate making and voila! 0.99 booted without a hitch. No inode errors,
- no tcp errors, no nothing. I even successfully recompiled ps and ps -U
- worked fine.
-
- However, xdm locks up my machine. xdm was working fine on 0.98.5, and nothing
- has changed with the xdm (or X, for that matter) stuff since then. I can
- start X with startx just fine. But xdm locks it up. Once I was lucky
- enough to get some errors in the xdm-errors. Basically, it said 'hung in
- XOpenDisplay (:0); aborting' and then 'cannot open display.' Does anyone
- know what my problem is here? This is important to me since I have several
- users, and xdm is their way to login and X is the environment of choice. Do
- I need to recompile the xdm source? Do I have an old version of xdm? I am
- running XFREE86-1.1.
-
- Any help will be greatly appreciated.
-
- Jeff Little
- operjsl@rosevc.rose-hulman.edu
-