Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 18:13:21 -0500 (EST) From: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Andrew Reid <andrew.reid@plug.cx> Cc: "Anthony M. Magsino" <ammag@kulog.upm.edu.ph>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: gdm Message-ID: <20011118181154.T41221-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <20011118203633.A2396@aviion.alfred.cx>
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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
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