Subject: Trouble with xdm

From: Marcelo Magallon <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 06:52:34 -0600 (CST)

Hi,

	I have just installed a minimal set of packages in order to run 
X11. Everything works fine: if I use startx I get X up and running (with 
twm as WM... how do I change that? I'd like to have fvwm2 as the 
default WM for all my users), and it works with xinit, too. But if I run 
xdm (from a root shell), it seems to start, but the login console never 
shows up. Any pointers, please?

Thanks,

	Marcelo Magallon

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From: [email-masked] (Bill Roman)
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 20:50:48 -0700 (PDT)

Marcelo Magallon wrote:
> But if I run 

This happened to me too, because I didn't configure xdm when I installed
it (because I didn't have the right info at hand to configure the X
server, and didn't want to get locked out).

You need to tell xdm what server to run.  In /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers, add:
:0 console-display local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0
and the problem should be solved.

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Bill Roman  ([email-masked] / [email-masked])   running linux