From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 15 7:11: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pcwin002.win.tue.nl (pcwin002.win.tue.nl [131.155.71.72]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58F3537B40A for ; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 07:11:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from stijn@localhost) by pcwin002.win.tue.nl (8.11.6/8.11.4) id f9FEAvR67140; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 16:10:57 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from stijn) Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 16:10:57 +0200 From: Stijn Hoop To: Philip Paeps Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GDM shows blank screen Message-ID: <20011015161057.D367@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> References: <000201c15582$6c6321b0$0200000a@paeps.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <000201c15582$6c6321b0$0200000a@paeps.cx>; from philip@paeps.cx on Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 04:05:19PM +0200 X-Bright-Idea: Let's abolish HTML mail! 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 Hi, On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 04:05:19PM +0200, Philip Paeps wrote: > Hi all - > > I've just installed FreeBSD fresh on a new machine, and configured X11 without > any issues. When I have GDM start from ttys(5), on startup, however, it just > loads X and sits there ... blank 'graphical' screen with an 'X' mousepointer > (which I can move around) in the middle ... No sign of a login box anywhere. > > XDM works without issues from ttys(5). > > I've added the following to pam.conf(5) > > # GDM config > gdm auth requisite pam_unix.so try_first_pass > gdm account requisite pam_unix.so try_first_pass > gdm session required pam_permit.so > > /usr/X11R6/share/gnome/gdm is as follows: > > drwxr-x--- 2 gdm gdm 512 Oct 15 15:33 gdm > > Any ideas? This apparently is an issue with XFree86-4.x.x and GDM. I really don't understand why, but I've got the same problem. On RedHat boxes, GDM works, and as far as I can tell, they use the same sources, so it's probably a linuxism that GDM relies upon. It's over my head though, so I haven't looked any further than that. You could try kdm for a prettier login daemon. --Stijn -- What would this sentence be like if it weren't self-referential? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message