Hello, On 2010-10-04 at 17:34 Guillaume ALAUX wrote: >On 4 October 2010 17:15, Christian <christian08@xxxxxxxxxx> 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 >> >> > >> will pacman check the packages so that they are completely downloaded? >Yes pacman checks md5sums > >I don't know if this is related but I noticed since the last gnome >update that when gdm displays the list of usernames, you can't select >the first one by just pressing enter. That used to work and was very >handy cause you didn't have to grab the mouse : wait for gdm to start >then press enter, the password, enter again and there you were. Maybe >you are just stuck at the user list ?! > >-- >Guillaume Yes, that's maybe correct. Since I am th eonly user how do I select the only user, I can't just press enter twice and then enter my password? I will try also the auto logon thing. Many thanks, Christian
