Start X?

[Lyle Kopnicky]

Jim Cornette wrote:

> I have the below packages installed that relate to xorg-x11. Usually 
> the updating programs (yum, up2date or apt) pull in any programs 
> needed, because of dependacies for other programs.
>
> If I recall some installation programs, it is possible to only install 
> the windowmanager and not the X server. You do need either XFree86 or 
> xorg-x11. The lack of deps might be because you could choose whatever 
> X server version that you choose.
>
> My listing for xorg-x11 is probably a bit more up2date. I just 
> upgraded the xorg-x11 recently, while reading the mail.
>
> Jim
>
>  rpm -qa |grep  xorg
> xorg-x11-libs-6.8.1-12.FC3.21
> xorg-x11-devel-6.8.1-12.FC3.21
> xorg-x11-6.8.1-12.FC3.21
> fonts-xorg-ISO8859-2-100dpi-6.8.1-1
> fonts-xorg-ISO8859-9-75dpi-6.8.1-1
> fonts-xorg-truetype-6.8.1-1
> xorg-x11-doc-6.8.1-12.FC3.21
> xorg-x11-font-utils-6.8.1-12.FC3.21
> xorg-x11-Mesa-libGLU-6.8.1-12.FC3.21
> fonts-xorg-ISO8859-14-75dpi-6.8.1-1
> fonts-xorg-ISO8859-15-100dpi-6.8.1-1
> fonts-xorg-ISO8859-15-75dpi-6.8.1-1
> fonts-xorg-ISO8859-14-100dpi-6.8.1-1
> fonts-xorg-ISO8859-2-75dpi-6.8.1-1
> xorg-x11-xauth-6.8.1-12.FC3.21
> xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-6.8.1-12.FC3.21
> fonts-xorg-ISO8859-9-100dpi-6.8.1-1
> xorg-x11-xfs-6.8.1-12.FC3.21
> fonts-xorg-base-6.8.1-1
> fonts-xorg-75dpi-6.8.1-1
> xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL-6.8.1-12.FC3.21
> xorg-x11-xdm-6.8.1-12.FC3.21

Having finally gotten all those packages to install (I didn't worry 
about the devel or Mesa ones), X now starts on boot!  I just have one 
problem - the mouse doesn't work.  I'm going to post a new thread about 
it because it seems like a different issue.

Thanks to all who helped.

- Lyle