RE: SEUL: Stopping dreams

[Donovan Rebbechi <elflord@pegasus.rutgers.edu>]

> - ->  My idea is that XDM needn't be fired up until the setup is
> - -> complete. 
> 
> I could agree with this if it's done from the installation before rebooting
> with the kernel on the hard drive.  It could be a simple xmessage box stating
> it is a test.  No window manager needed.  There cold be a short timeout value
> to automagically kill the session in case the refresh is off and the user can't
> see the message.  If the user kills the server himself the script notes this
> and carries on, if the script has to kill it for him a diagnostics process
> begins.

Yep. That's the kind of thing that I was thinking about.

> 
> I think I have figured out how to squash the loop-o-death.  I will play around
> with it and let you all know.  Wether we test the Xserver at install or

Cool!