On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:17 AM, David Walker <davidianwal...@gmail.com> wrote: > A colleague and I were talking about operating systems and I said, hey
[...] > If I reboot I get a message to the console that gdm is starting but it > goes to a console login. > Sounds like a video problem. It usually works right away but it seems that the video mode and or video driver are not being able to start the X server and then GDM which will eventually load Gnome when you pass the credentials screen. The GDM start script is in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/gdm You can try: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/gdm restart and see. > Is there anything else I need to do? > Absolutely. Get an idea of your hardware by using pciconf -l or -lv to get the details on your hw Also make sure you have HAL, etc, Take a look at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html And make sure you have followed all steps. Look at the logs (/var/log ) and see if you can spot the specific error message so we can be of more help here... Best, -- Alejandro Imass _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
