> -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of jludwig > Sent: 02 August 2004 17:26 > To: For users of Fedora Core releases > Subject: Re: Install X after a minimal installation > > On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 11:31, robin-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Can anyone point me at a guide that will tell me which packages to > > install to get X working? Or some other trouble-shooting guide? > > It appears that maybe X is starting but you are being dropped > back into say tty1 because of no Xserver. > > 1) Try alt+F7 after starting to see if there is any video at > all. (My system will display the video BIOS startup text) Nope, nothing. > > 2) What Xserver are you using kde gdm ...... I had installed gdm. > 3) Modify Xorg.conf for minimal video settings. (Bad settings > should have given an error) Don't think that was the problem. > Try; (I am not sure of these, but should force installation of > dependencies) > yum -t -y install kdebase > yum -t -y install gnome-session Well, what I did was to issue an rpm query command like this: # rpm -qa --queryformat "%{INSTALLTIME},%{NAME%}\n" | sort -nr > rpmlist.txt This gave me a list of installed rpms in the order I'd installed them. I worked out where I'd started messing with the X stuff, and deleted everything before that point from the file. I then munged the list of packages into a big "rpm -e" command and deleted everything! Then I used "apt-get install gnome-session". Hmmm. "startx" is not present now. Looks like I need to install something else... R. -- http://robinbowes.com
