Re: [gentoo-amd64] GDM hates me

[Peter Davoust]

I just tired that. I can actually interact with it, although it crashed
after a few minutes (which has never happened to me before). I'm going to
reboot and play with it some more. Something that worries me now is that it
says that it can find /etc/System.map. Should I be worried?

-Peter

On 5/13/07, Antoine Martin <antoine@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
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> Peter Davoust wrote:
> > Well, /var/log and grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log give me nothing, because
> > I can't get to the terminal to execute them in the first place. I'll try
> > sticking with xdm, and if that doesn't work I'll load a gentoo minimal
> > livecd and tell you the output of /var/log and grep EE
> > /var/log/Xorg.0.log. Thanks.
> It's probably not your display manager that's the problem, just X.
> Turn off xdm and try to start X on its own with 'startx' from the
> command line (you may want to use the VESA driver to start with if the
> default auto-detected config breaks)
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> if it is xdm (which I doubt), why not try kdm or gdm?
> >
> > On 5/13/07, *Jeffrey Gardner* <je_fro@g.o
> > <mailto:je_fro@g.o>> wrote:
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> >     Florian Philipp wrote:
> >     > Am Sonntag 13 Mai 2007 20:14 schrieb Peter Davoust:
> >     what does
> >     grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log
> >
> >     return?
> >     --
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