From: Kenny Hitt <kenny@hittsjunk.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: getting gnome running under debian
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 23:40:29 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031205054029.GA3352@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031205033812.GA1972@romuald.net.eu.org>
Hi. Your X isn't working. Check out /var/log/XFree86.0.log to find out
why.
Hope this helps.
Kenny
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 09:38:12PM -0600, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I've decided to setup gnome on my play box, mostly because I was lazy,
> and didn't feel like compiling festival under slackware, and as I
> hoped, there were binary festival packages already available for
> debian, so I installed that.
>
> Anyway, I seem to have everything installed (gnome and dependencies,
> gnopernicus and dependencies, xfree86-common and dependencies,
> ETC.). When the system starts, I'm told that gdm is being started, and
> then I get my standard login prompt. Then, something like this comes
> up:
>
> missing display, cannot find console dialogue
>
> I'm not sure if that's the exact text, since it's not on the screen for me
> to cut and paste here, but it's close to what it actually says.
>
> Could someone please enlighten me as to what I'm missing?
> Thanks.
>
> Greg
>
>
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Gregory Nowak
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