[K12OSN] sudden appearance of grey X - fixed

[Les Mikesell]

Julius Szelagiewicz wrote:

> Ooops. Les,
> 	getting Gnome working on the console fixed the problem of gray X for VNC
> sessions and for the terminals. I am truly sorry that I've neglected to
> write the amended post. Yes, you -were- right :-)  Hearty thanks!
> 
> 	I am still baffled by the connection - why does the fixing GDm on
> console help the terminals and by the actual event - why did a functioning
> system suddenly stopped working when there were -no- changes done to
> software.

Runlevel 5 tries to start the console session and gdm and apparently 
stops if the console doesn't work.  Somewhere I've seen the config 
change needed to not bother with the console session but I've forgotten 
it.  After gdm is working I think you can modify xorg.conf and 
start/restart the console session if you want to put the broken copy 
back and see if you can find what it is complaining about in the log. 
It could be something like needing to auto-detect the monitor 
capabilities for the screen resolution you have set but the monitor is 
unplugged or powered down.

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   Les Mikesell
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