help with starting Fedora core 7 gdm

[E. Robert Tisdale]

From: "Charles Curley" <charlescurley at charlescurley.com>
To: "For users of Fedora" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Subject: Re: help with starting Fedora core 7 gdm
Date: Saturday, June 09, 2007 9:38 PM

> E. Robert Tisdale wrote:
>>    I installed Fedora Core 7 on an older PC.
>> 
>>    I selected the graphical version of the installer
>> but it automatically switched to the text version
>> (probably because it didn't recognize my monitor).
>> 
>> I tried to install everything (custom install)
>> but, when I re-booted, it didn't start gdm
>> and it didn't prompt me for a [non-root] user.
>>  I created an account for myself with useradd.
>> 
>> How do get it to start gdm
>> when I boot Fedora Core 7?
>
> Likely anaconda set you up to use run level 3.
> Try running "startx" and see what happens.
> Or, as root, run "gdm".

I did that.  It seems to work.

> If that fails,
> I've found that installing X may not install the driver
> you need, so that could be a problem.
> We'll want the output from "lspci" to help further
> if that is the problem.
> 
> If running startx is sucessful,
> you can make it permanent.
> Check /etc/inittab for this line:
> 
> id:5:initdefault:
> 
> If you see a 3 in there, then, as root, change it to a 5.

That seems to have done it.