On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 19:30, robin-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > -----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... Robin, This may be stating the obvious, but given the problems you are coming across, you could probably have a full system with X quicker if you reinstalled from scratch from the CDs. HTH Chris
