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From: "Longman, Bill" <longman@sharplabs.com>
To: <gentoo-laptop@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: [gentoo-laptop] Gnome black screen
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:02:42 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <811D382F92501D4EB5F748D2BF9EFBB903706B@wabex2.sharpamericas.com> (raw)

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
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             reply	other threads:[~2007-02-23 17:01 UTC|newest]

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2007-02-23 17:02 Longman, Bill [this message]
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