On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 16:39:23 -0500, G. Zachariah White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been poking around on the web and in books, but I haven't been able > to find anything that addresses my problem. > > I've installed Woody from CD on a Compaq Presario PII. I have a > Logitech PS/2 wheel mouse and a standard 104 keyboard. When I boot up, > the system hangs at the Gnome login screen. No blinking cursor, no > mouse control, no keyboard response. The clock tells time, so something > is still movin'. The only option is to power cycle. I've managed to > move X (the file) to X.bak so that I can boot and use the bash terminal. > > Any ideas about what to check or fiddle with to get my gui going? >
If you're stuck at the GDM login screen i suggest you to look in your /var/log/gdm or your /var/log/XFree86.0.log for error messages... Andrea P.S. you should be able to start your gnome session even without GDM, put a file ".xinitrc" with a line "gnome-session" and then launch the "startx" command (the .xinitrc stuff isn't the Debian way to do it but i have not time to check the correct way =) P.P.S. you can avoid GDM to run at boot modifying your /etc/X11/default-display-manager -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
