getting gnome to work

eliterit · n00b Joined: 06 May 2004 Posts: 8

running gentoo-dev-sources , 2.6.5 kernel
nvidia fx 5200
a7n8x mobo

okay i emerged gnome and i set xsession=Gnome and Display manager=gdm
Whenever i do startx it loads a blank screen witha cursor and thats it. If i left click i'm able to open up Xterm and from there i can open mozilla or gaim just fine. But theres no gnome desktop.

or

when i do # gdm , it opens up entrance and if i try to login it'll ask me if i want to do "x session" "last session" "xterm" and some other option. Well on that , I choose X session and after that it asks me about widget session, and my only option to select is "Default/failsafe",, after i select that it loads a purple screen witha cursor and thats it. Theres no way to get out of that screen, i have to manually reboot my computer.

please help, thanks

Deathwing00 · Posted: Thu May 06, 2004 7:33 pm Post subject:

Moved from Installing Gentoo.

ralph · Advocate Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Posts: 2001 Location: Hamburg

If you want to use startx, put gnome-session in ~/.xinitrc.
If you want to use gdm, set DISPLAYMANAGER=gdm in your rc.conf and add xdm to your default runlevel (rc-update add xdm default)

Have fun!

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eliterit · n00b Joined: 06 May 2004 Posts: 8

monotux · Posted: Fri May 07, 2004 8:03 pm Post subject:

xdm (in /etc/init.d) is just a wrapper - you specify what login manager you want to use in rc.conf.
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