Re: How to manually start gnome?
From: bala chandar (mbchandar_at_gmail.com)
Date: 03/17/05
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Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 15:53:25 +0530 To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list <redhat-list@redhat.com>
you can start the gnome using
startx
On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 10:27:20 +0200, Tony van Till <tony@pmtech.co.za> wrote:
> Hi, how do we get onto this new list?????
>
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> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts
> Sent: 17 March 2005 04:56 AM
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> Subject: Re: How to manually start gnome?
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> On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 04:33:45PM -0800, Seth G wrote:
> > How curious. I ran rpm -qa | grep -i xfree and it returned nothing. So
> then
> > I just ran rpm -qa and visually inspected the packages. I have a ton
> of
> > entries for Gnome but not a single for "xfree".
> >
> > I'm running version 4.
>
> Red Hat switched from XFree to Xorg in RHEL 4. You should really start
> using nahant-list instead of redhat-list since nahant is dedicated to
> RHEL 4 questions.
>
> Looking at my Fedora Core 3 system which also has the Xorg stuff, you
> should be looking for packages that have xorg instead of XFree in their
> names. Similarly, the log file is /var/log/Xorg.0.log.
>
> These are the xorg packages I have installed on Fedora Core 3. You'll
> have slightly different names but it should give you the general idea.
>
> [ewilts@pe400 ~]$ rpm -qa | grep -i xorg
> xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL-6.8.1-12.FC3.21
> xorg-x11-xfs-6.8.1-12.FC3.21
> xorg-x11-xdm-6.8.1-12.FC3.21
> xorg-x11-libs-6.8.1-12.FC3.21
> xorg-x11-font-utils-6.8.1-12.FC3.21
> fonts-xorg-100dpi-6.8.1-1
> fonts-xorg-base-6.8.1-1
> xorg-x11-xauth-6.8.1-12.FC3.21
> xorg-x11-6.8.1-12.FC3.21
> xorg-x11-twm-6.8.1-12.FC3.21
> fonts-xorg-75dpi-6.8.1-1
> xorg-x11-Mesa-libGLU-6.8.1-12.FC3.21
> xorg-x11-tools-6.8.1-12.FC3.21
>
> [ewilts@pe400 ~]$ which startx
> /usr/X11R6/bin/startx
>
> > Why would the installer install and setup for xwindows and then fail
> to
> > install it?
>
> I think it's installed but it doesn't like your X configuration. This
> can happen if your monitor or graphics card are incorrectly configured.
>
> Also, please trim your posts. I think I just deleted a half dozen
> copies of the list footers.
>
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