Re: debian session

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> 
>> 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.. ;)

I just did what the apus FAQ mentioned about wrong keyboard layout and
everything is allright now.


> 
> 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.
> 

Nothing to do with Linux here, I just want to have a WB at 1280x1024 and not
want to reboot without startup-sequence  in order to launch bootstrap.
I downloaded amiga-lilo, maybe I could solve this.
Lio