xfs - gui - recent updates

Chasecreek Systemhouse chasecreek.systemhouse at gmail.com
Tue Jan 17 18:42:14 UTC 2006


On 1/17/06, Gregory P. Ennis <PoMec at pomec.net> wrote:

> I tried creating a new user account, and doing a login on a terminal windown.  When I started 'startx' I received the same errors.
>
> I had a third machine develop the same symptoms of not displaying a gui login screen.  I am able to see the gui boot up process but when each system tries to switch to the gui login the display presents itself with some screwy lines.
>
> This all looks like the resolution has changed, but I have not changed any of the resolutions.
>
> Is there a way to change the resolution from a terminal window.  I would like to try to change the resolution to the same as the default for the boot up gui process.
>
> Sure would appreciate anyone's help.


Try this procedure:

Ctrl-Alt-F2 and log in as root

vi /etc/inittab and set initdefault to runlevel 3.  Save the file and reboot.

On the console log in as root and type startx -- for now just ignore
all the errors.  Does the resulting TUI dialogs ask you if you want to
generate a new xorg.conf file?

If so, say yes and see if that does not resolve the issue. This
procedure worked for me this past Sunday.  If it does resolve it --
just edit the /etc/inittab file to start X in runlevel 5 and reboot.

HTH/Bill
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