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potatoface
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 Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 10:26 pm Post subject: [SOLVED] xdm and no graphical login |
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i installed and configured xorg-x11.
when i startx Xsession and fluxbox both start without any problems.
my problem is when i want to start directly into the graphical env.
it stops at the text-mode login and X doesnt start automatically.
i am happy with every hint.
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Raftysworld
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| Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 3:40 am Post subject: |
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First, open up /etc/rc.conf with a text editor and ensure that all that is setup the way you want it. Save the file, then run rc-update add xdm default and you're good to go with a graphical login! 
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avieth
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| Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 4:03 am Post subject: |
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| Its butt ugly though. I'd rather do console login. |
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potatoface
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| Raftysworld wrote: | | First, open up /etc/rc.conf with a text editor and ensure that all that is setup the way you want it. Save the file, then run rc-update add xdm default and you're good to go with a graphical login! |
i 've done this already but no luck.
| avieth wrote: | | Its butt ugly though. I'd rather do console login. |
i have no choice anyway.
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Drunkula
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| Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2005 5:24 pm Post subject: |
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In rc.conf you might want to use a different login manager instead of regular XDM. I personally prefer either entrance or gdm. Kdm is okay too.
Just adding xdm to the default runlevel is not enough unless you've rebooted. What does the following show from the CLI?
| Code: | | /etc/init.d/xdm start |
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potatoface
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| Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2005 11:34 am Post subject: |
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i get no errors when starting xdm.
i cant use gdm or kdm because i dont have gnome or kde installed 
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potatoface
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| Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 2:04 pm Post subject: |
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| crudh wrote: | | You can use GDM without having all of GNOME installed. It requires a few GNOME libraries, but not all of GNOME. |
ok, thanks, i will try this.
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"a few GNOME libraries" is relative. when i do an emerge -a gdm i get this:
| Code: | These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild N ] gnome-base/libglade-2.5.1
[ebuild N ] gnome-base/libgnomecanvas-2.10.2
[ebuild N ] gnome-base/orbit-2.12.2
[ebuild N ] gnome-base/libbonobo-2.10.0
[ebuild N ] gnome-base/gconf-2.10.1-r1
[ebuild N ] gnome-base/gnome-mime-data-2.4.2
[ebuild N ] net-nds/portmap-5b-r9
[ebuild N ] app-admin/fam-2.7.0-r2
[ebuild N ] gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.10.1-r1
[ebuild N ] gnome-base/libgnome-2.10.1-r1
[ebuild N ] gnome-base/libbonoboui-2.10.0
[ebuild N ] gnome-base/gnome-keyring-0.4.3
[ebuild N ] gnome-base/libgnomeui-2.10.1
[ebuild N ] x11-themes/hicolor-icon-theme-0.8
[ebuild N ] x11-themes/gnome-icon-theme-2.10.1
[ebuild N ] x11-themes/gtk-engines-2.6.3-r1
[ebuild N ] x11-themes/gnome-themes-2.10.2
[ebuild N ] app-text/sgml-common-0.6.3-r4
[ebuild N ] app-text/opensp-1.5.1
[ebuild N ] app-text/openjade-1.3.2-r1
[ebuild N ] app-text/docbook-sgml-dtd-4.1-r3
[ebuild N ] app-text/docbook-sgml-dtd-4.0-r3
[ebuild N ] dev-perl/SGMLSpm-1.03-r5
[ebuild N ] app-text/docbook-dsssl-stylesheets-1.79
[ebuild N ] app-text/docbook-sgml-dtd-3.0-r3
[ebuild N ] app-text/docbook-sgml-dtd-3.1-r3
[ebuild N ] app-text/docbook-xml-simple-dtd-4.1.2.4-r2
[ebuild N ] app-text/docbook-xml-simple-dtd-1.0-r1
[ebuild N ] app-text/build-docbook-catalog-1.2
[ebuild N ] app-text/docbook-xsl-stylesheets-1.68.1-r1
[ebuild N ] app-text/docbook-xml-dtd-4.3
[ebuild N ] app-text/docbook-sgml-utils-0.6.14
[ebuild N ] app-text/docbook-xml-dtd-4.1.2-r5
[ebuild N ] dev-libs/libgpg-error-1.0-r1
[ebuild N ] dev-libs/libgcrypt-1.2.1
[ebuild N ] dev-libs/libxslt-1.1.14-r2
[ebuild N ] app-text/scrollkeeper-0.3.14-r1
[ebuild N ] gnome-base/gdm-2.8.0.1-r1 |
| avieth wrote: | | Its butt ugly though. I'd rather do console login. |
i think this is the best solution for me too.
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| Quote: | | "a few GNOME libraries" is relative. when i do an emerge -a gdm i get this: |
Hehe, ok... it wasn't a few, only about half of them were gnome stuff but still... The guy on the link I posted made it sound like it wasn't that much that needed installing. But have you tried doing "emerge -a gdm -v" and fooled around a bit with the USE flags on the ebuilds? Maybe you can get some of them to go away? |
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potatoface
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| Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 4:14 pm Post subject: |
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now i have installed entrance and it works great!
i recommend it for anybody i my situation (computer is a pIII with 935MHz and 256MB Ram).
and entrance is really beautiful!
thanks to all who helped me.
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