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To: gentoo-laptop@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-laptop] Gnome black screen
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 13:27:15 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1172255235.6119.18.camel@bong.greenbuzz.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <811D382F92501D4EB5F748D2BF9EFBB903706B@wabex2.sharpamericas.com>
On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 09:02 -0800, Longman, Bill wrote:
> Rick,
>
> Sorry to preempt your thread, but you might want to see if you can get
> just an xterm running. Try this:
>
> /usr/bin/xinit /usr/bin/xterm
>
> You should then get an xterm with no window manager. From there, you can
> try to start Gnome. Just run "gnome-session" and it should start doing
> its thing. I noticed on my machine that I hadn't had dbus running, so it
> wouldn't start - it just hung there. Once I started dbus, all was well.
>
> Bill
soved.
I ran dbus-uuidgen --ensure and that fixed it...
I still need to update the bios though...
Thanks
rick
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