In a message dated: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 09:28:31 PST Ken Ambrose said: >On Wed, 27 Mar 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Anyone install RH7.2, have the X config go smoothly, have it tell you >> that GNOME would be your desktop, choose a graphical login, and still >> have it present you with a text login? > >Well, I've never had a problem with it, but then, I usually select text >for my login -- I hate waiting for X to come up if I don't need it. >However, it's an easy fix, regardless of what the root cause might be.
Yeah, you'd think so, however, as I stated, getting it to work wasn't my priority, figuring out if what I was seeing was normal for a 7.2 install was. >Add the following line to the end of your /etc/inittab file: > >x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon > >Unless I'm mistaken, that'll fix the whole shebang -- it puts you into >runlevel 5, which is just techno-babble for "GUI login". Yeah, that was my first guess too. However, that's already in the initab file. prefdm is a shell script which then looks in /etc/ sysconfig/desktop for the DESKTOP entry, which was blank. In theory, this should be okay, and it should default to GNOME if that's available and if /usr/sbin/gdm exists, should start that up. It didn't. I don't know why. I'm in the process of writing install directions for X via a normal installation of the OS, and for some reason, it b0rk3d :( -- Seeya, Paul ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
