[ale] XFree Problems

[Cory T. Echols]

On 02/07, Kevin O'Neill Stoll wrote:
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> If I let the bootstrap run though runlevel 5, I get no display at all.
> I changed to runlevel 3 from grub, logged in and then issued startx,
> it worked! So I figure, what the hey now let's try to go from boot
> straight through to X windows, no luck...
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If startx works, I'd rule out an X configuration problem.  The next
candidate is gdm -- the gnome display manager.  It's logs should be in
/var/log/gdm.  Perhaps there's a helpful error message in there.

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Cory T. Echols
ctechols at mindspring.com