[gentoo-user] Re: gnome not working

[Hartmut Figge]

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
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Hartmut