On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Kevin O'Gorman<[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Mark Knecht<[email protected]> wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Kevin O'Gorman<[email protected]> wrote: >>> I'm not getting anywhere with X, and the scripts themselves seem to be >>> screwed up. >>> I've re-emerged x11-apps/xinit to no avail, and I'm current with >>> revdep-rebuild. I have no idea what else to try. >>> >>> Here's a transcript; no log is created in /var/log/Xorg.0.log so I >>> don't think I have any further information: >>> >>> Script started on Wed 08 Jul 2009 09:00:25 AM PDT >>> treat ~ # /etc/init.d/xdm stop >>> * Stopping xdm ... >>> /sbin/start-stop-daemon: stat /usr/bin/xdm: No such file or directory >>> (No such file or directory) >>> [ ok ] >>> treat ~ # /etc/init.d/xdm zap >>> * Manually resetting xdm to stopped state. >>> treat ~ # /etc/init.d/xdm start >>> * Setting up xdm ... >>> start-stop-daemon: stat /usr/bin/xdm: No such file or directory (No >>> such file or directory) >>> * ERROR: could not start the Display Manager [ >>> ok ] >>> treat ~ # exit >>> >>> Script done on Wed 08 Jul 2009 09:00:53 AM PDT >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Kevin O'Gorman, PhD >>> >>> >> >> So is xdm emerged? Seems strange. > > xdm comes from xinit, which is emerged. > > >> Are you using gnome by chance? You can change the display manager you >> choose inside of /etc/conf.d/xdm where I set gdm. emerge gdm and for >> me it just works. > > Back in May, when this was working, it booted into KDE. However, > /etc/conf.d/xdm seems to be set to start "xdm", which is loopy. When > I change it to kde, it's says it's starting kde, but nothing happens > and the log says no devices detected and no screens found.
emerge is not careful about xdm.conf so you might have had correct settings earlier and then a new emerge over wrote something when you weren't looking. inside xdm.conf you can choose xdm, kdm or gdm. I choose gdm as I use Gnome and XFCE. HTH, Mark
