Am Sonntag 13 Mai 2007 20:14 schrieb Peter Davoust: > Ok, while I realize that GDM cannot "hate" me, I've been trying to ditch > SuSE10.2 for the past day, and when I install Gentoo, then reboot, it boots > properly, init launches everything it needs to, and then the screen goes > blank. I wait for a while, press the touchpad enable/disable button (it has > a light and if it ceases to function I know my OS has crashed), and it's > working. Then I wait a while, and still nothing. I try ctrl+alt+ backspace, > and that's when the fun starts. It crashes, completely locked up, at a > totally black screen. Only the lcd backlight is on. I've tried this with > Gentoo and Fedora, and Elive and Xandros do the same thing on livecd's. I'm > thinking gdm is causing my problems, so just for fun I tried Fedora sans > Gnome and only KDE, but alas: squat. It did the exact same thing. This > really ticks me off, because I've once again built up my appreciation for > Gentoo, and I'm ready to try it again, but it's failing. Not only that, but > every other distro I try fails me too, except SuSE, and I don't want to be > stuck with it for the next few weeks. I have a Compaq Presario v6000, amd > Turion64 x2, Nvidia graphics card, 120 gig hard disk with a good 20 gig > free. 2 gig ram. An interesting thing is that the Gentoo livecd boots just > fine, but it, as I understand, uses xdm as it's login manager. Help? > Please? > > -Peter
Hi Peter! Anything interesting in /var/log ? If xdm works, you can stay with it. Just follow this guide [1] and when you do the last step, set it to xdm and not to gdm. [1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gnome-config.xml
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