Re: debian session

[Andreas <an...@po...>]

Hello Limer

Am 29-Dez-02 schrieb Limer:

> Hi All,
> Now that X is working, I installed a brand new system with gdm as default
> session manager. But now I can not type my password to enter because the
> keyboard layout is absolutely wrong. So I decided to install a base system
> on another partition to access this partition and change this behavior.

Wew, sounds very complicated to me.

> The
> question is from where gdm is taking the keyboard layout ?

From XF86Config.. As everything which is X. But, nevermind, I didn't manage
either to get a session manager working here.. (but it may have been some
fault on my end). Keyboard layout was very screwed too. Now I'm a happy user of startx.. ;)

So, if you want to try and fix the keyboard layout, alter the right XF86Config
(on the right partition, as you now seem to have multiple installations on one
disk) according to the one which you had yesterday or so where you still had a
working system (if you forgot how it was, look at the "InputDevice"
section correspondig to "Generic Keyboard" on the XF86Config file which
you posted some days ago on this list). But only alter the keyboard stuff,
don't screw up the video driver or the mouse again.. ;)

> If I put my WB in 1280x1024 (16bits) and launch bootstrap, I got in error
> message saying not enough chip Ram, so I have to go back to 1152x900. No
> chance to have a 1280x1024 WB and launch boot strap without having to
> reboot with no startup-sequence ?

Why do you want to boot with a wb in these resolutions? To tune the console
resolution? Then better use the kernel parameter. But I guess you want to tune
the resolution of gdm, which will not work, X is not interested at all on
which res your wb was in, as always, it's using XF86Config to determine which
resolution to use.

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Best wishes,
Andi