From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NIGym-0004nX-HU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2009 07:28:56 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 24D37E045E; Wed, 9 Dec 2009 07:28:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from zion.lichtfels.com (zion.lichtfels.com [88.198.33.170]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA443E045E for ; Wed, 9 Dec 2009 07:28:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zion.lichtfels.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15C8B184003 for ; Wed, 9 Dec 2009 08:28:19 +0100 (CET) Received: from zion.lichtfels.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zion [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with LMTP id 04364-10 for ; Wed, 9 Dec 2009 08:28:18 +0100 (CET) Received: from [172.32.99.12] (mail.oops.co.at [213.129.238.225]) by zion.lichtfels.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 41D1A184002 for ; Wed, 9 Dec 2009 08:28:18 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4B1F5199.1050305@xunil.at> Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 08:28:25 +0100 From: "Stefan G. Weichinger" Organization: oops! User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; de; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091209 Thunderbird/3.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: went from x86 to ~x86: no more X11 References: <4B1EA880.3000800@xunil.at> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-maia at lichtfels.com X-Archives-Salt: 5d909363-b30d-4521-a6e2-39e0c1610de7 X-Archives-Hash: e71165304301229f769afcf2d7c6d7e5 Am 09.12.2009 01:24, schrieb walt: > Looks to me like the X server *is* running, unless you left out the error > message at the end of the log. No, nothing left out. > Why do you say X didn't come up? Because it says so. I get that dialog "X-Server could not be started" (similar, I get the msg in german language here). It let's me see Xorg.0.log then ... > How are you starting the x session? /etc/init.d/xdm ... with DISPLAYMANAGER="gdm" in /etc/conf.d/xdm gdm was built after xorg-server, I read somewhere that this might be an issue. But you are right, it might be more of a gnome-issue: I tested DISPLAYMANAGER="xdm" now, X is coming up and lets me log in ... but I only get some ugly and very simple desktop (xsm ...). This only as a test ... So it seems more gdm/gnome-related to me, right? > You might try the vesa driver just to see if > there is a difference. hmm, yep, will try that. Thanks, Stefan