I dont recall if I have something related to your gray screen problem, though you might want to look at my speedbumb notes from my mdk 9/lts 3 installation
geocities.com/cucnews --- "Charles N. Burns" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (from the article) > > #### > 2: Display manager is not running > > - Gentoo > Need more info, any volunteers ? > #### > > In Gentoo, to start the desired display manager, > just execute it directly. > For example: > > gdm > > Starts GDM. Similarly, > > KDM > > Starts KDM. > > To make a display manager run by default when the > system is started: > > FIRST: Open /etc/rc.conf with your favorite text > editor and look for the lines: > # What display manager do you use ? [ xdm | gdm > | kdm ] > DISPLAYMANAGER= > > (and set the appropriate value) > > > > SECOND: > Run the command > rc-update add xdm default > > Note that "xdm" should stay "xdm", do not replace > with "kdm" or "gdm", the > script will find the display manager you prefer > automatically at each boot > from the rc.conf file edited in the first step. > > > Note that if no display manager is installed, one > will obviously have to be > before any will run. GNOME comes with GDM, KDE with > KDM and XFree86 with > XDM. To install any of these, just install the > environment they come with. > For example, to install GNOME (and anything it > depends on, like X and > GTK+), you would enter: > emerge gnome > > To install KDE, > emerge kde > > Note that GDM can be installed directly with: > emerge gdm > > ...But it will have to install GNOME, GTK+, etc. in > order to work. > To see a complete list of everything that will be > installed, including all > dependencies and dependencies of dependencies, etc, > use the command: > emerge --pretend NAME > > (where "name" is the name of the package to install) > > > Of note: Gentoo doesn't implement runlevels line > most other distros. It has > three: "boot", "default", and "nonetwork". Others > can be added, but these > work fine. > rc-update is the prefered method for adding startup > stuff to these > runlevels. More services can be added in the same > manner, for example, to > add NFS and TFTP daemon support, you would enter: > rc-update add nfs default > rc-update add in.tftpd > > The scripts for these services can be found in > /etc/init.d > > > BTW, Jam, that article didn't solve the problem I am > having with grey X > screens--it's all stuff I've checked a thousand > times, but it is certainly > useful. If that had been around a while ago it would > have certainly saved > plenty of time searching for that same info. > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 22 Nov 2002, amol ambekar wrote: > > > > > >>when i boot my client using ltsp in runlevel 5. > >> > >>i get a gray screen but i dont get the login > screen can anybody > >>help? > > > > > > Go to the LTSP.org site and click on the 'Contrib' > link on > > the left side of the screen. > > > > At the top of the contribs is an article I wrote > describing > > how to fix the blank gray screen problem. > > > > Jim McQuillan > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _____________________________________________________________________ > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or > change prefs, goto: > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus – Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
