Hi All & Rob V whom wrote:
Thanks for the tip. I had switched my displaymanager to kdm and all worked fine. Alas, after that I tried switching back to console and manually starting X, same infinite password prompt. I have a feeling that if I install it with YaST I might not have these problems, but it seems obstinate in not permitting me to do so. I have tried connecting to the ftp site via YaST using ftp.suse.com/pub/SuSE-Linux/suse_update/XFree86-3.3.5-SuSE/suse62/ as the server directory. YaST then proceeds to look for a /suse subdirectory, a /CD1/suse subdir, and a /cd1/suse subdir, of which none are there, so it tells me my settings are faulty and they cannot be saved. So, I give up on that, and try to set my installation medium to a reachable directory, I first tried putting all the X rpm's in /root/updates... YaST can't find the installation directory... it's there... so then I try using /updates, which is also there and containing the rpm's and YaST still can't find it..... **pulling hair out**
Anyone else have this problem, and if so is there a workaround/fix/whatever?
TIA
Yuk.... What about an alternative strategy to those rpm's? "Use the source luke." (With apologies to Star Wars fans....) I downloaded the binary .tgz from a handy mirror site, viz ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/XFree86/ There will be one nearer you (unless this is the nearest), check out the mirror list @ this site. Read the instructions & then downloaded a few more files that were not in the 3.3.5 directory & then it went rather smoothly I must say! Dunno about all this alternative window manager stuff! I am on KDE 1.1.2pre1 & that is stable enough & my desktop is very Mac-ish now.... I've gone off icons, so there are none on my desktop. Good luck & keep asking. Greek Geek :-) Old MacDonald had an agricultural real estate tax abatement. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/