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- From: jf@edv6000.tuwien.ac.at (Josef Fritscher)
- Subject: Re: XDM, Ksh, mwm, and nothing works
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.142843.8910@email.tuwien.ac.at>
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- Organization: Technical University of Vienna
- References: <1992Dec7.174412.5605@ncs.com> <1g0jppINNfl9@unidui.uni-duisburg.de> <eswu.723933933@waterloo.austin.ibm.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 14:28:43 GMT
- Lines: 42
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- In article <eswu.723933933@waterloo.austin.ibm.com>, eswu@waterloo.austin.ibm.com (Wu) writes:
- |> michael@hal6000.thp.Uni-Duisburg.DE (Michael Staats) writes:
- |>
- |> >bruce@ncs.com (Bruce E. Parkin) writes:
- |>
- |> ...
- |> >> The XDM Xservers file
- |> >>has an undocumented option -sdebug in it
- |> >>that seems to be required, but what does it
- |> >>do?
- |>
- |> The X server will not start if you are not on a hft (as requested by a
- |> customer in a bug report). A flag was added to allow the X server to be
- |> started without a hft. Originally, this was used internally for
- |> debugging and was called -sdebug. In X11R5, this will be called
- |> "-force" (not my choice). You need the flag because xdm does not have
- |> a hft when it starts out from /etc/inittab or /etc/rc.tcpip.
-
- This is wrong. I am on a hft and when I start xdm and xdm starts X
- it needs -sdebug and there is no reason why! There is no fancy inittab or
- rc.tcpip. It's quite simple: if you want use xdm you've to use -sdebug in
- the Xservers file.
-
- |>
- |> --
- |> Eng-Shien Wu (eswu@austin.ibm.com)
- |> IBM Graphics Systems, X Server Development
- |>
- |> USMail: IBM Mailstop 9260, 11400 Burnet Rd, Austin, TX 78758
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- Joe
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