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I assume you're quite new to gentoo, so I'll be as verbose as I can. Ask for more if you need some. |
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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. |
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For these reasons, I never use gdm by default. To fix your problem, I would disable it the following way: |
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- boot with a livecd of any kind. |
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- mount your gentoo root and chroot into it. |
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- "source /etc/profile && env-update" |
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- "rc-update del xdm default" |
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- reboot your system. |
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Once you've rebooted, you can try to launch an x session customizing |
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~/.xinitrc and using "startx" . If that doesn't work you probably have a |
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misconfigured /etc/X11/xorg.conf . You could generate a sample one with |
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"X -configure" . The web page http://gentoo-wiki.com/Xorg is worth a |
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glance in this neverending quest. |
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When it does work you can issue a "/etc/init.d/xdm start" . |
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