Matthew French said: > Check /etc/inittab. The tty's are managed from there. It may be that you > have getty tty0 when you shouldn't - or the other way round. > > I presume you have checked that /dev/tty0 exists? > > The other thing that bothers me is that with X it should be using > /dev/tty7.
it does exist, but I think since I am using a serial console the hardware disables the port(no keyboard/mouse/monitor connected) > > I run my Ultra5 with a serial console, and X does not start up. But > then, I have no keyboard attached, so it is not too surprising X does > not start. so maybe it's just going to be getting gdm not to try to start X locally.. nate
