Re: running kdm on native xorg installation

[Berndt Josef Wulf <wulf%ping.net.au@localhost>]

On Wednesday 08 October 2008 13:58:05 Berndt Josef Wulf wrote:
> G'day,
>
> I'm trying to get kdm windows manager to work on a system with "native
> xorg" (not pkgsrc xorg-modules) installed. For this purpose, I blew away
> all packages and rebuilt to ensure they are Xorg aware. I've also renamed
> X11R6 as to exclude it from the standard search path. I copied the example
> kdmrc resource file into /usr/pkg/etc/kdm and modified rc.conf to enable
> kdm.
>
> After reboot, the kdm login window comes up, but won't start kde after
> login. No error message is displayed, just a couple of screen switches only
> to return to the login screen.
>
> kdm.log has this to say:
> Mode 1920x1200 - 2208 1220 10
> freq: 161630000
> best_freq: 161625000
> best_feedback_div: 431
> best_ref_div: 12
> best_post_div: 6
> Set CRTC PLL success
> Set CRTC Timing success
> Not using RMX
> scaler 0 setup success
> Set CRTC 0 Source success
> Output LVDS setup success
> Output 23 enable success
> Enable CRTC 0 success
> Unblank CRTC 0 success
> Output 68 disable success
> Blank CRTC 1 success
> Disable CRTC 1 success
> Output 23 disable success
> Blank CRTC 0 success
> Disable CRTC 0 success
> Blank CRTC 1 success
> Disable CRTC 1 success
> Enable CRTC 0 success
> Unblank CRTC 0 success
> Output 23 enable success
> QSettings: error creating /tmp/1313673748/.qt
> QSettings: failed to open file '/tmp/1313673748/.qt/qt_plugins_3.3rc'
> QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty
> QSettings: error creating /tmp/1313673748/.qt
> QSettings: failed to open file '/tmp/1313673748/.qt/qt_plugins_3.3rc'
> QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty
> Output 23 disable success
> Blank CRTC 0 success
> Disable CRTC 0 success
> Blank CRTC 1 success
> Disable CRTC 1 success
> Enable CRTC 0 success
> Unblank CRTC 0 success
> FreeFontPath: FPE "/usr/X11R7/lib/X11/fonts/misc/" refcount is 2, should be
> 1; fixing.
>
> Has anyone seen this before and how did you fix this problem?
>
> Also, does native Xorg support DRI? If so, how do I configure it? Do I
> still need to install the pkgsrc driver?
>
> Many thanks in advance,

I've been looking into the failure to open the resource file. The following 
occurs:

kdm is started root previliges. It created directory new directory inside 
the /tmp filesystem that looks like this:

drwx------  4 root  wheel  512 Oct 10 14:42     1313673748

As can bee seen, only root has the previliges to access this directory. When a 
user logs into the system it tries to read this directory and the resource 
files inside it with the previliges of that user, which consequently will 
fail.

I'm not sure which process creates this directory other than its accessed by 
the QSettings class.

Perhaps someon on this list can shed some light on this?

cheerio Berndt