Hello. Did you by any chance start the X server? Dounds to me like its not started or perhaps its not configured correctly. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 10:38 PM Subject: getting gnome running under debian > 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 > > > -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
