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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!ais.net!uunet!in1.uu.net!204.157.34.41!news1.radix.net!news From: lotlbbt@radix.net (Lowell O. Turner) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Help!!! X11R6 (NetBSD 1.2 Sun/3) config problems ! ! ! Date: 24 Apr 1997 19:12:07 GMT Organization: RadixNet Internet Services Lines: 48 Message-ID: <5joba7$rje@news1.radix.net> Reply-To: lturner@nyx.net NNTP-Posting-Host: dialin31.annex6.radix.net X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5846 I apologize if this is in the wrong newsgroup. However, of the groups I subscribe to, this seemed the most appropriate. After a week of attempting to get xdm to function, I am no longer having fun. I retrieved the X11R6 tar files in the NetBSD Sun/3 directory about a couple of months ago. Last month I managed to get NetBSD (v1.2) on the aforementioned Sun. About two weeks ago, I began to install X11R6 on this machine. I figured that since the distribution was pre compiled, installation & configuration would be easy. I was astonished to note that this distribution did not appear to have ANY configuration data or information. Also, no man pages were included. To make a long story short, and to come to my point, I have been using the three X books that I have to help me along. I have literally copied verbatim a number of scripts/files from ORA's "X Window System Administrator's Guide". xinit works like a charm. However, xdm is a real #$%$% (female dog). "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-errors" shows the following: xdm error (pid 105): Hung in XOpenDisplay(:0), aborting xdm error (pid 105): server open failed for :0, giving up xdm error (pid 99): Display :0 cannot be opened Warning: Cannot convert string "*-new century schoolbook-medium-r-normal-*-180-t Warning: Cannot convert string "*-new century schoolbook-bold-r-normal-*-180-*"t Warning: Cannot convert string "*-new century schoolbook-bold-i-normal-*-240-*" I can't figure out the incantation to get the display to respond. Any help would be greatly appreciated. TIA, Lowell P.S. would I just be better off building it (X11R6) from the sources? ====================================================================== Lowell O. Turner EE wanna be George Mason University Fairfax, VA lturner@nyx.net http://www.nyx.net/~lturner/