On 05/26/2011 08:54 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 11:07 PM, Todd And Margo Chester
<toddandma...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi All,
I only installed SL6 Basic server. This means I have no graphics and am
sitting at run level 3. Now that Xfce 4.8 x86_64 is out, I am about to get
my graphics. I will not be able to physically get at my new server until
Monday. So, some stupid question till I can see for myself.
I plan on installing kmod-nvidia and nvidia-x11-drv from elrepo
and group installing xfce from epel.
Just out of curiosity, do I need to install gdm as well? Or, will it
get caught in a tidal wave of dependencies?
Also, do you see any flaws in my plan?
Many thanks,
-T
gdm is most useful for runlevel 5. You don't *HAVE* to use this: you
can log in at the console or other windows and use "startx" to start
your X session.
The big question is, what *else* did you leave out in doing a basic
installation? xauth? xterm? Firefox? OpenOffice? Emacs with X
capibility, rather than emacs-nox? I'll urge you to take a look at
"yum list" and pick out application syou want, and pre-install them.
Oh I left a ton of them out. On purpose too. My current server is full of
unused junk. I want the new one to only have installed what I am actually
using. (Okay, I know, that won't last very long.)
Thank you for the feedback!
-T