you can start the gnome using startx On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 10:27:20 +0200, Tony van Till <tony@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, how do we get onto this new list????? > > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts > Sent: 17 March 2005 04:56 AM > To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list > Subject: Re: How to manually start gnome? > > On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 04:33:45PM -0800, Seth G wrote: > > How curious. I ran rpm -qa | grep -i xfree and it returned nothing. So > then > > I just ran rpm -qa and visually inspected the packages. I have a ton > of > > entries for Gnome but not a single for "xfree". > > > > I'm running version 4. > > Red Hat switched from XFree to Xorg in RHEL 4. You should really start > using nahant-list instead of redhat-list since nahant is dedicated to > RHEL 4 questions. > > Looking at my Fedora Core 3 system which also has the Xorg stuff, you > should be looking for packages that have xorg instead of XFree in their > names. Similarly, the log file is /var/log/Xorg.0.log. > > These are the xorg packages I have installed on Fedora Core 3. You'll > have slightly different names but it should give you the general idea. > > [ewilts@pe400 ~]$ rpm -qa | grep -i xorg > xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL-6.8.1-12.FC3.21 > xorg-x11-xfs-6.8.1-12.FC3.21 > xorg-x11-xdm-6.8.1-12.FC3.21 > xorg-x11-libs-6.8.1-12.FC3.21 > xorg-x11-font-utils-6.8.1-12.FC3.21 > fonts-xorg-100dpi-6.8.1-1 > fonts-xorg-base-6.8.1-1 > xorg-x11-xauth-6.8.1-12.FC3.21 > xorg-x11-6.8.1-12.FC3.21 > xorg-x11-twm-6.8.1-12.FC3.21 > fonts-xorg-75dpi-6.8.1-1 > xorg-x11-Mesa-libGLU-6.8.1-12.FC3.21 > xorg-x11-tools-6.8.1-12.FC3.21 > > [ewilts@pe400 ~]$ which startx > /usr/X11R6/bin/startx > > > Why would the installer install and setup for xwindows and then fail > to > > install it? > > I think it's installed but it doesn't like your X configuration. This > can happen if your monitor or graphics card are incorrectly configured. > > Also, please trim your posts. I think I just deleted a half dozen > copies of the list footers. > > -- > Ed Wilts, RHCE > Mounds View, MN, USA > mailto:ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx > Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- bala> balachandar muruganantham bala> lynx http://chandar.blogspot.com -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
