GDM and X messed up!
Nils Philippsen
nphilipp at redhat.com
Mon Oct 6 13:55:17 UTC 2003
Hi Andrei,
On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 23:01, Botoaca Andrei wrote:
> I have installed KDE only (no gnome, only devel for it ... becuase i needed
> some libraries). Everything works ok. Buuuuuuuuuuuuuut! When I update GDM
> allways !!! (and I really mean allways), because it heapened the same on
> severn 1 (now severn 2), the hello/login thingie will not work anymore (it
> keeps mumbling smt about GNOME, and there IS NO GNOME!!! because I never
> needed that krappie thing. And the only thing in which I can login in
slow down, no need to call anything names...
> graphic mode is de safe terminal! No KDE, no nada ... ( in 9.093 i
> owerwrited the Session with the Session.rpmsave which was made during
> update, and it quite worked, I mean no gdm running, but kdm instead (but
> that was fine by me to). And in the /etc/sysconfig/desktop I have "KDE"
I guess you updated your existing system and have an old
/etc/sysconfig/desktop file containing only:
DESKTOP="KDE"
To start kdm, you need to add this line to it:
DISPLAYMANAGER="KDE"
Please report it at bugzilla.redhat.com under Fedora Core against
anaconda (this is the installer) -- the installer should add the line if
it is missing, probably taking the value from DESKTOP.
> setting). Can anyone help me with this ?? ASAP ?! Because I am on windows
> (sorry I can't write it with smaller fonts, because I'm not proud of me ...
I don't understand this sentence (I see the words, but don't get the
meaning).
> but I can fix kernels, I can fix drivers, but the arhitecture of the XFree
> >=4 and the kdm,xdm,gdm thingie I don't get).
Start with looking at /etc/X11/prefdm -- this is the script that starts
the actual display manager.
Nils
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