On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 07:51:19PM -0500, Fernando y Yohara wrote:
> > I am using XF4.2 on NetBSD 1.5.2
> >
> > If I logon from one of the tty sessions and do startx I go into graphic mode
> > with no problem.
>
> OK. I suspect this dialog box is part of the xdm in XFree4.
> I never used XF4 so I can't tell more, but it's probably documented somewhere.

I think I know what's going on. You have to update "Xresources". If
you build from source into "/", so-called "configuration" files will
not be overwritten. So try something like:

    cp /usr/xsrc/xfree/xc/programs/xdm/config/Xresources \
	/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xresources

Frederick