Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!bu.edu!nntp-read!jc From: jc@raven.bu.edu (James Cameron) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Help: XDM problems Message-ID: Date: 7 May 91 13:38:23 GMT References: <9105070725.AA17507@lightning.McRCIM.McGill.EDU> Sender: news@bu.edu.bu.edu Organization: What do you mean 'That *can't* be done????' Lines: 43 In-reply-to: mouse@lightning.mcrcim.mcgill.EDU's message of 7 May 91 07:25:56 GMT >>>>> On 7 May 91 07:25:56 GMT, mouse@lightning.mcrcim.mcgill.EDU (der Mouse) said: > I just have finished to build the X11R4 on SPARCs running SunOS > 4.1.1. I have some problems with the xdm program: [...deleted good answers to questions about xdm...] der> This looks like a problem with the X server itself, not with xdm. Try der> starting X via xinit instead of xdm. If you have another machine you der> can rlogin from, try logging in over the network and running Xsun that der> way. Until you can get X to start up that way, I wouldn't waste your der> time wondering why xdm won't behave. The problem is the server definition in the Xservers file. If it is not set up correctly, the X server will not start, and therefore, XDM will not have anything to run on. > Which are all my BIG errors? What have I missing? der> The biggest error that I see is that you're trying to make too many der> things work at once. Ignore xdm for now; get the server working. Then der> worry about making xdm behave. der> der Mouse I don't think that his problem is tackling too many things, though at first glance it might be. The solution (as I found out) was getting the proper line in the Xservers file. jc -- -- James Cameron (jc@raven.bu.edu) Signal Processing and Interpretation Lab. Boston, Mass (617) 353-2879 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "But to risk we must, for the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. For the man or woman who risks nothing, has nothing, does nothing, is nothing." (Quote from the eulogy for the late Christa McAuliffe.)