Subject: Re: the sad story of my graphical interface
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@astron.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 02/04/2006 15:03:16
In article <43E4688B.6010202@ac-nantes.fr>,
david aubril  <david.aubril@ac-nantes.fr> wrote:
>    Hum, hum. It's me again, still trying to get gnome to work on netbsd 
>3.0 with Xorg ( no Xfree86 installed ) form pkgsrc 2005 Q4.
>    I build xorg. Everything wet fine ( finally ). I build gnome-base. 
>Same thing. I build gdm. Perfect.
>    Startx works, xorgcfg works.
>    But when I try to start gdm, I get the message: /gdm_server_spawn: 
>Xserver not found: /usr/X11R6/bin/X:0 -audit 0 -auth /var/gdm/:0.Xauth 
>-nolisten tcp/.
>    I am not fluent in english, but I think this means that gdm doesn't 
>find X. I checked the paths at the places I know: .profile, .cshrc, 
>/etc/csh.cshrc. I even set the paths lines in gdm.conf, which is quite 
>stupid.
>    Well, coming from linux, netbsd is a marvellous challenge.
>    So, does somebody know what I need to change to get gdm to work ?
>    Thanks.

Find gdm's configuration files. X:0 is not valid it should probably be
changed to X.

christos