| Mental on Mon, 25 Mar 2002 12:07:51 -0500 |
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On Mon, 2002-03-25 at 11:51, Mike Leone wrote: > > Just type X and start the server. It'll take the guess work out of a lot of stuff. Once X starts up, switch to a vc, set DISPLAY > >and launch your window manager. > > But that won't help now, since I've reformatted and gone back to the default potato-based distro. X on THAT works fine. It's > only when I upgraded to testing that it crapped out. > > > Wouldn't it be funny if everything was fine, but there was no default window manager set? X would start up, then promptly exit..... > > Hilarious :-) > > I wonder if that's what it was ... As I said, there were no error messages in the X log ... > > Q: when you use gdm, and you see the login screen properly, does that mean that X itself is working fine? If GDM works, then X is fine. Your problem lies elsewhere. Mentioning this would have saved a significant amount of time :) > I could try and login via gdm, but it would just bounce me back to the gdm screen. That's when I turned off gdm, > and tried it via startx. If it was no window manager, but X itself was fine, wouldn't the symptoms have been the same? The symptoms were the same. You didnt have a window manager set, X exited, gdm ( which DID have a working configuration) started backup. > > For next time .... where is the window manager setting for X, in a Debian based distro? > No idea. I dont use it. I do everything the same way on openbsd, and all linux distros. I wrote a .xsession and use that. For startx you need a .xinitrc. You had X configured fine, you just didnt tell it to start a window manager, so it didnt. Live and learn... -- Mental (Mental@NeverLight.com) Do you think that when they asked George Washington for ID that he just whipped out a quarter? --Steven Wright GPG public key: http://www.neverlight.com/Mental.asc Attachment:
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