Subject: Re: gdm
To: NetBSD/sparc Port <port-sparc@NetBSD.org>
From: Holger Weiss <lists@jhweiss.de>
List: port-sparc
Date: 07/31/2005 22:48:44
* Greg Evans <greg.evans7@verizon.net> [2005-07-31 13:34]:
> cgsix0 at sbus0 slot 2 offset 0x0 vector 5 ipl 5: SUNW,501-2325, 1152
> x 900, rev 11 (console)

[...]

> gdm[433]: Failed to start X server several times in a short time  
> period; disabling display:0
>
> and am returned to the shell prompt
>
> startx works fine and gives me the expected results and from there if
> I type gnome-session a typical gnome desktop shows up window by
> window (which is kinda funny).

I never tried running GDM on an 8 bit framebuffer, but I suppose GDM
uses more than 256 colors by default and it may not be able to get
things sorted out when running on a cgsix.  I had a similar problem
using XDM, see PR xsrc/30451.

Holger

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