> 
> On 23.08.99, 14:24:31, Guy Santiglia wrote:
> > 
> > I'm trying to get xdm to give me a login screen.
> > On my mac68kBSD machine I only had to edit the /etc/rc.conf
> > file "xmd=YES"
> > I did that on my 386 machine and a "ps -ax" command
> > shows that xdm is indeed running but I get no login
> > screen.
> > 
> > Do I need to configure something to get xdm to give me
> > a login screen?
> 
> Does the Xserver start and give you that black/white pattern and a
> mouse cursor, just the login-widget is missing? Or do you get no
> Xserver at all?

No, the xserver doesn't start with xdm.  It will start and runs fine when 
I use startx, but with just xmd running I get no black and white screen or
mouse cursor.
> 
> 
> You might also check the file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-errors to
> give you a clue what went wrong.

  I couldn't find that file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-errors on my system, 
but I did have an error file in /var/log/xdm.  Here is a little piece of
that file:

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Configured drivers:
  S3: accelerated server for S3 graphics adaptors (Patchlevel 0)
      newmmio, mmio_928, s3_generic

Fatal server error:
xf86OpenPcvt: Cannot open /dev/ttyE4 (Device not configured)


When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send
the full server output, not just the last messages

xdm error (pid 179): IO Error in XOpenDisplay
xdm error (pid 173): Display :0 cannot be opened

XFree86 Version 3.3.3.1 / X Window System
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If I weren't such a newbie, I'd probably be able to figure this
out from here. but I'm still having trouble.  Does anyone know 
what the problem might be?




  Guy


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Guy Santiglia  Quadra 610, 50 MHZ, NetBSD 1.4!
South Korea
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