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- From: pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald)
- Subject: Re: HELP X gods! .99 broke my xdm!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.222308.14664@sol.UVic.CA>
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- References: <1gjr8mINNoa@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu> <chuck.724403077@perlab.eas.asu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 22:23:08 GMT
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- In article <chuck.724403077@perlab.eas.asu.edu> chuck@perlab.eas.asu.edu (Chuck Lunskis) writes:
- >operjsl@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU writes:
- >
- ...
- >>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
- ...
- >I too am having problems with 0.99 and xdm.
- >
- >xdm starts, and I get the login prompt, but can't log in. Most of the keys
- >work, but a few (like 'r', 'RETURN', and some others) don't function. I also
- >get this incessant beeping with every keystroke. startx also works okay for
- >me, it's just xdm with the problem.
- >
-
- I hear that you should use "xdm -nodaemon". But you will still have
- a problem with using it in SLS, because of shadow password stuffs.
-
- I just posted a fix to xlock, but now can not find the source to xdm
- to do the same. On gatekeeper, I get this junk.
-
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