rafal@utstat.uucp (Rafal Kustra (summer student)) writes:
| I upgraded my X to xfree from x11v1.1. I had xdm running
| before, but now I can't get it to work.
| Basically, startx gives me usable X, so it is OK.
| Doing xdm from VT, as a root, works fine.
| But doing xdm as it should be, from rc, fails.
| It is actually xterm that fail, xdm works.
| I can login in xdm, it executes one of xsessions,
| which make it put the clock on, but xterm wont appear.
| .xsession-error says 
| xterm Error 14, errno 19: no such device.
| Bassically, I can't get xterm to open if I start xdm from rc.
| What is wrong?
| (my console exists of course ...)
| 
|                                 Rafal

Well, after a bit of fooling around with this, I managed to get it to
work by using 'doshell' to start xdm, as in:

 /bin/doshell /dev/tty1 /usr/X386/bin/xdm

Don't know if this is the best solution, but it does work.

    -Hutch

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Bob Hutchinson                            
Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
(hutchinson@wrair-emh1.army.mil)