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From: Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinrichs@online.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xdm wont start
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 19:25:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200907081925.44940.dirk.heinrichs@online.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9acccfe50907081022n57455cd7s9d989d5b16ef33e@mail.gmail.com>

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Am Mittwoch 08 Juli 2009 19:22:25 schrieb Kevin O'Gorman:

> > So is xdm emerged? Seems strange.
>
> xdm comes from xinit, which is emerged.

No, it comes from xdm, as Mark wrote.

> Back in May, when this was working, it booted into KDE.  However,
> /etc/conf.d/xdm seems to be set to start "xdm", which is loopy.  When
> I change it to kde, it's says it's starting kde, but nothing happens
> and the log says no devices detected and no screens found.

Because kde is not a display manager, that would be kdm.

Bye...

	Dirk

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-08 17:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-08 16:09 [gentoo-user] xdm wont start Kevin O'Gorman
2009-07-08 16:12 ` Mark Knecht
2009-07-08 17:22   ` Kevin O'Gorman
2009-07-08 17:25     ` Dirk Heinrichs [this message]
2009-07-08 17:36     ` Mark Knecht
2009-07-08 16:17 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-07-08 17:24   ` Kevin O'Gorman
2009-07-08 17:27     ` Kevin O'Gorman
2009-07-08 17:33       ` Dirk Heinrichs
2009-07-08 17:39       ` Dale
2009-07-08 17:32     ` Dirk Heinrichs
2009-07-08 21:49     ` Neil Bothwick
2009-07-08 23:19       ` Kevin O'Gorman
2009-07-09 17:04         ` Dirk Heinrichs
2009-07-08 17:23 ` Dirk Heinrichs

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