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Comment 108 for bug 408417

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David Ayers (ayers) wrote : Re: No option to log in remotely via XDMCP

Thanks a lot Tim... It seems that for my use case using X directly would actually also be more appropriate anyway.

I have my desktop session running, switch to terminal 1 via ctrl-alt-F1, login then run:
sudo X :2 -query <ip>
my screen goes blank but no greeter is displayed. I've attached the custom.conf from the server, but I don't find anything unusual.

I suppose that the main difference between our setup is that you are using two 64-bit systems while mine are i686, is that correct? These are both Dell pre-installed systems that have been upgraded to Lucid with many manual configurations and a few proprietary drivers for misguided hardware purchases :-/ oh well...

I'd install 64-bit Lucid on both via external USB drives but due to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub-installer/+bug/45989
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub-installer/+bug/46520
that's a bit tedious for my production systems... but I hope I'll get around to it coming week.

Again, thanks a lot for providing the PPA's for lucid and spending the time to knock this out.