From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 18 15:14: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from shumai.marcuscom.com (rdu57-28-046.nc.rr.com [66.57.28.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D3A637B405 for ; Sun, 18 Nov 2001 15:13:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (marcus@localhost) by shumai.marcuscom.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fAINDLI43097; Sun, 18 Nov 2001 18:13:21 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) X-Authentication-Warning: shumai.marcuscom.com: marcus owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 18:13:21 -0500 (EST) From: Joe Clarke To: Andrew Reid Cc: "Anthony M. Magsino" , Subject: Re: gdm In-Reply-To: <20011118203633.A2396@aviion.alfred.cx> Message-ID: <20011118181154.T41221-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 18 Nov 2001, Andrew Reid wrote: > On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 01:12:24PM +0800, Anthony M. Magsino wrote: > > > Hi. Can anybody tell me how to make gdm work in FreeBSD-4.3? I've read > > all documentations in the CD and yes, they warned that gdm might or might > > not work. Xdm worked fine. but I want gdm. Thanks. > > I installed GDM 2.2.3.2 from ports recently, and I've not been able to > get much happening either. > > However, there seems to be two problems manifesting themselves > here. Firstly, in my /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/Init/Default file (the script > that gdm will execute once the X server has started), gdmlogin seemed > to be commented out or nonexistant.[1] In order to get gdm working, you need to cvsup the latest ports collection, have all the latest gnome bits installed, and be using gdm 2.2.4.2_1 or higher. While simply installing gdm 2.2.4.2_1 should get you going, a lot of stability improvements have gone into ORBit, oaf, libpng, and gdk-pixbuf that make it work upgrading. Joe > > I added gdmlogin to Init/Default, and that managed to pop up something > vaugely intelligent. gdmlogin was complaining that I was running > different versions of the daemon (gdm) and the gdmlogin program. Odd, > seeing as I installed straight from ports. > > That seems to be a step in the right direction. I'll follow this up on > Monday[2] when I've got Ethernet-speed Internet connection to work > with. I'll post any results along with the instructions to get the > beast working (if it'll work at all). > > - andrew > > [1] I can't remember exactly -- I was playing with it at 3:00AM last > night. > > [2] I'm sending this on Sunday, Nov 18 at 20:34:36 +1030, but it'll > probably sit in the local mail queue on my notebook until > Monday. The whole concept of dialup is something I try to avoid > :-) > > -- > Andrew J. Reid "Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem > andrew.reid@plug.cx mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane > +61 401 946 813 mittam" > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message