walt: >Anyway, the trick *I* would try is to add the gentoo=nox kernel >option to the grub boot prompt (assuming you use grub) to prevent >gentoo from even trying to start an X session, thus avoiding gdm >and allowing you to use startx so you can read the gnome error >messages on the console while X starts up.
I am also using startx and have no experience with *dm. For a test, how about renaming gdm to gdm-old and creating a script with the name gdm instead? ----- gdm ----- #!bin/bash gdm-old 2>&1 | tee ~/gdm.log --------------- Hartmut
