Re: [gentoo-user] Is starting xdm enough to see something in X?

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 11:49 AM, bn <brullonulla@gmail.com> wrote:
> Mark Knecht ha scritto:
>> Title sort of says it. I have an old machine that I'm setting up as a
>> Myth server. I didn't want X on the machine but I'm having trouble so
>> I emerged xdm and start it using /etc/init.d/xdm start. The  drivers
>> get loaded but I get a black screen. No error message in the X log
>> file.
>>
>> I haven't messed with X at this level before. What's the minimum test
>> of X that would display a terminal or something very basic?
>>
>
> Have you tried
>
> startx /usr/bin/xterm
>

Yes. Same black screen. Nothing else going on. The processes show up
in ps aux, X as root, xterm as me.