> From: Mitchell Laks [mailto:ml...@post.harvard.edu] > Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 2:48 PM > > On 16:06 Tue 25 Aug , Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 2009-08-25 15:58, Mitchell Laks wrote: > > >On 19:20 Mon 24 Aug , Ron Johnson wrote: > > >>startx or gdm? > > > > > >i shut off gdm and am working with startx at the command line. > > >:) > > > > Good for you! > > > > Have you tried "startx -- -v"? It might not work, but couldn't hurt. > > > > i had tried that and it did not work. > i was looking for the options of X itself...
Is there something in your ~/.xinitrc, ~/.Xsessionrc, or ~/.xserverrc file causing startup to fail? Have you looked for errors in the ~/.xsession-errors file? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org