Kevin Ross wrote: > > 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?
Okay, c'mon, did you read his original post? I mean, really: "I looked for .xinitrc .xsession files .xsession-error files etc. I looked in the /var/log/Xorg.0.log file and no information..." :-\ -- J -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org