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Hey all I'm a lammer, but please help be out. For somer reason when I was installing this software (http://www.ximian.com/products/) when it was done it restarted into text mode, and I can't get out I type "startx" and I can get into GNOME but I can to log in using the GUI how can I get this back, or can I atleat start KDE from text mode. Sorry about this stupid question, but its hard to find basic stuff like this on the net.
gdm starts Gnome display manager, which starts X then gives a graphical login and choice of window manager... never tried kdm (KDE display manager) on the prompt but it does exist, since i use it at startup... it's basically another gdm (or vice versa?) so is xdm (X display manager)
startkde starts KDE and i think the X server too unless something's wacky ...
i'd check the init stuff, run tksysv in Gnome and look at runlevel 5 for something like kdm, gdm, xdm, etc. it ought to be set to something like persistent or respawn or... what's the word i'm looking for? someone throw me a lifejacket...
what ximian product was it? i bet it was either Ximian Gnome or Ximian Desktop...
Is there like a simple setting or somthing or a command that I can chage to make it just boot into a GUI login everytime? like it did before I installed that software? or am I forever going to have to type "startx" or "xde"?
I did that i changed the 5 to a 3 (for "Full multiuser mode") but I loged of and then loged back on and I was still in text mode, should I also chage the....
Code:
# Run xdm in runlevel 5
# xdm is now a separate service
x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon
Shoud I change "x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon" to" x:3:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon" as you can see i have no clue what I'm doing.
P.S. Is there a way to shutdown in text mode or shutdown in the KDE (not logout)
Cool, thanks so much for your help, I'm sorry about asking such basic questions but ya gotta start somewere, I think I'm going to go buy a book about red hat.
Everyone's gotta start somewhere I started with Mandrake, excellent newbie distro.
There is a thread floating around with a .bz2 link to RedHat unleashed, I think Acid_Kewpie is the one who gives that link. But that might be a good read for you even if it doesn't directly apply to your current version/distro.
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