Hi all, I had to do a reinstall of my machine so I did that and for some reason, Gnome doesn't start proprely. I am visually impaired so I can't see the screen until I have logged into Gnome and started Orca, the screen reader for Gnome. Here is what I do. pacman -S xorg xf86-video-ati xf86-input-keyboard xf86-input-mouse gnome gnome-extra gnome-system-tools Then I did: pacman -S gamin pacman -S gdm I have however got a protocol error so I had to restart some of the downloads above, but will pacman check the packages so that they are completely downloaded? Anyway, I then did: /etc/rc.d/hal start /etc/rc.d/gdm start and I did all of this as root. Then I can read that the screen goes into the graphical environment since BRLTTY and Speakup, the console screen readers tell me that. I wait for about 30 seconds before I login as my user but nothing happens when I press enter after I have entered my password. Have I missed something? This is like I did before. I have added my user to the video group as well as the others recommended on the beginners guide. Any thoughts? Many thanks, Christian
