No, I'm not new to Gentoo, I've just been switching back and forth for a while, although I always appreciate some verbose instructions. Now X and gnome have begun working, I'm just dealing with some other problems.
-Peter On 5/13/07, Isidore Ducasse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I assume you're quite new to gentoo, so I'll be as verbose as I can. Ask for more if you need some. I have always experienced troubles with X at startup on fresh installs, whatever distro I use (mainly Debian and Gentoo, and a bit of NetBSD). And if gdm is running at boot, there's no access to the whole boot log on tty1. I know it lies somewhere, but I don't want it printed on screen just for fun. For these reasons, I never use gdm by default. To fix your problem, I would disable it the following way: - boot with a livecd of any kind. - mount your gentoo root and chroot into it. - "source /etc/profile && env-update" - "rc-update del xdm default" - reboot your system. Once you've rebooted, you can try to launch an x session customizing ~/.xinitrc and using "startx" . If that doesn't work you probably have a misconfigured /etc/X11/xorg.conf . You could generate a sample one with "X -configure" . The web page http://gentoo-wiki.com/Xorg is worth a glance in this neverending quest. When it does work you can issue a "/etc/init.d/xdm start" . -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
