Hello Brian,
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 4:13 AM, Brian Cameron <[email protected]> wrote: > > Amit: > >> On booting the b107, I was automatically moved into console login, and >> after that, I did a 'svcadm clear nwam' (according to the work around >> suggested) and then did a 'startx', where errors were thrown. >> Apparently, it could be a problem with my NVidia (Quadro ) card. > > What startx script are you using? The /usr/X11/bin/startx script? > Did you pass it any arguments? > >> 'gdm' started. But, I do not get the graphical environment. > > The /usr/X11/bin/startx script doesn't start "gdm". Instead it just > seems to start up the Xserver with a terminal program. If you want > to start GNOME via startx I would think you need to run it with > arguments - something like: > > startx /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session gnome-session > > If you want to run GDM, you need to make sure the GDM service is > running "svcadm enable gdm". If GDM fails to start up after > enabling the service, then you can turn on debug in the GDM > configuration, and it will send debug output to the syslog > (/var/adm/messages). Such debug information would likely help diagnose > any problems you have with starting GDM. I waited a bit longer (as suggested) and things worked out fine! Best, Amit > > Brian > -- Amit Kumar Saha http://amitksaha.blogspot.com http://amitsaha.in.googlepages.com/ *Bangalore Open Java Users Group*:http:www.bojug.in "Recursion is the basic iteration mechanism in Scheme" --- http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TailRecursion _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
