GUI login?

[Craig White]

On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 19:57 -0800, Mark L wrote:
> Okay, maybe I'm just an idiot.....  I installed Fedora
> Core on my laptop 
> (dual booting w/WinXP), everything seemed to go well
> but I can't seem to 
> figure out how to get a GUI login.  I've searched and
> read and tried 
> just about everything I can find, but still all I get
> is the text.  Yes, 
> I'm a newbie but I know this shouldn't be this hard!
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that seems odd - Fedora would normally set up 'run level 5' (GUI)

can you login as root with root password and type 'startx'

does that work?

You may have a problem with the X startup...

if you can't run startx as root - it would seem that setup is a
problem...then try running 'system-config-display --reconfig' and see if
you can reconfigure the display to a working condition. Once you are
capable of running 'startx' as root, log off of 'X' and type 'init 5'

Craig