I know I saw several posts in the recent past regarding the above problem. I have 8.0, and I just upgraded X to the latest -196 off the web site for 8.0. After restarting, no more xconsole. After some checking, I found out this is in /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup. toward the end is a command to disable the xconsole if kdm is running. I just commented out this line, and got my xconsole back. HTH others as well. -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Web Address: http://www.mydestiny.net/~joe_morris Registered Linux user 231871 God said, I AM that I AM. I say, by the grace of God, I am what I am.
Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
I know I saw several posts in the recent past regarding the above problem. I have 8.0, and I just upgraded X to the latest -196 off the web site for 8.0. After restarting, no more xconsole. After some checking, I found out this is in /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup. toward the end is a command to disable the xconsole if kdm is running. I just commented out this line, and got my xconsole back. HTH others as well.
Can you give a little more information please? Where precisely did you upgrade X from? I have trouble with xconsoles. I get one on the login screen but not (usually) after user login. I didn't see a command in /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup to disable the xconsole if kdm is running. Is this a new version? I've found that whether an xconsole appears depends on the computer architecture and the video drivers and may appear intermittently. This suggests to me a (harmless) race condition. Unfortunately, I don't know X or bash well enough to trace exactly what's happening. I know /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup is being executed because I've added an instruction to it to swap the function of two buttons on one of my mouses. JDL
On 01/02/2003 05:14 PM, John Lamb wrote:
Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
I know I saw several posts in the recent past regarding the above problem. I have 8.0, and I just upgraded X to the latest -196 off the web site for 8.0. After restarting, no more xconsole. After some checking, I found out this is in /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup. toward the end is a command to disable the xconsole if kdm is running. I just commented out this line, and got my xconsole back. HTH others as well.
Can you give a little more information please? Where precisely did you upgrade X from?
ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/suse/i386/supplementary/X/XFree86/XFree86-4.2.0-SuSE/suse80/
I have trouble with xconsoles. I get one on the login screen but not (usually) after user login. I didn't see a command in /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup to disable the xconsole if kdm is running. Is this a new version?
It is the latest release of 4.2 for 8.0. It must be a new option, as my xconsole worked fine before the update. If you have the xconsole on the login screen, yours is a different problem. -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Web Address: http://www.mydestiny.net/~joe_morris Registered Linux user 231871 God said, I AM that I AM. I say, by the grace of God, I am what I am.
Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
I know I saw several posts in the recent past regarding the above problem. I have 8.0, and I just upgraded X to the latest -196 off the web site for 8.0. After restarting, no more xconsole. After some checking, I found out this is in /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup. toward the end is a command to disable the xconsole if kdm is running. I just commented out this line, and got my xconsole back. HTH others as well.
This didn't solve my xconsole problem: the xconsole flashes briefly on the screen then disappears during user login with kdm. But.. I can still have xconsole on kdm login screen (thanks for that). And.. The combination of XFree86-196 and the latest NVidia drivers reduces substantially the startup time for X with a GEForce4. -- JDL
* John Lamb
This didn't solve my xconsole problem: the xconsole flashes briefly on the screen then disappears during user login with kdm.
But..
I can still have xconsole on kdm login screen (thanks for that).
If you want to see xconsole, do: alt_f2 -> kdesu /usr/X!!4^/bin/xconsole answer the password prompt xconsole should start in a kde konsole shell window. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org icq#173753138
SuSEnixER wrote:
If you want to see xconsole, do:
alt_f2 -> kdesu /usr/X!!4^/bin/xconsole
answer the password prompt
xconsole should start in a kde konsole shell window.
Presumably that's X11R6 ;-) Actually, my current solution is to use a script called messages: #!/bin/sh exec xterm -geometry 100x10 -e tail -f /var/log/messages & This doesn't require root permission and works like xconsole. -- JDL
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