Hello, Christian wrote: > 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 You can try auto-login by editing /etc/gdm/custom.conf and, under [daemon] put: AutomaticLoginEnable=true AutomaticLogin=your_username Maybe something changed in the latest gnome update and you can't login the same way you did. Best regards, Paulo Santos
