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From: als@bohra.cpg.oz.au (Anthony Shipman)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Difficulty w/ xdm on Silicon Graphics w/ NCD.
Summary: wrong geometry
Keywords: xdm XDMCP iris
Message-ID: <1991Mar25.100639.11602@bohra.cpg.oz>
Date: 25 Mar 91 10:06:39 GMT
Article-I.D.: bohra.1991Mar25.100639.11602
References: <4896@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu>
Organization: Software Division, Computer Power Group
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In article <4896@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu>, brent@curie.bcm.tmc.edu (Brent Alan Wiese) writes:
> 
>      I am having difficulty getting xdm on a Personal Iris to work with
> a NCD X terminal.  Has anybody else experienced this problem?  We are
> running IRIX 3.3.1 on the iris.  The difficulty occurs with both the
> xdm provided by SGI and the xdm compiled from X11R4 patch 18.
>      The NCD X terminal works fine with xdm from other hosts.  When I
> turn on xdm debug on the Iris (/usr/bin/X11/xdm -debug 3), it seems to
> stop after printing the line "creating socket 177" and never gets
> to the line "WaitForSomething".


I have had the same problem with my NCD17c.  The problem turned out to be that
the geometry was too big in the Xresources file for xdm.  All of the other NCD
terminals are black and white with a portrait display.  A full size login
window for those is too big for the NCD17c.  (Maybe an NCD17c bug).

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