Subject: Re: the sad story of my graphical interface
To: Christos Zoulas <christos@astron.com>
From: david aubril <david.aubril@ac-nantes.fr>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 02/04/2006 20:52:50
    It's not that sad, actually. It finally worked out. The lines to 
change were at the end of gdm.conf.
    Thanks a lot.
    Best regards.

Christos Zoulas wrote:

>In article <43E4688B.6010202@ac-nantes.fr>,
>david aubril  <david.aubril@ac-nantes.fr> wrote:
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>>   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.
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>Find gdm's configuration files. X:0 is not valid it should probably be
>changed to X.
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>christos
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