Hey all, I've been around a lil bit, and I just installed gentoo on my computer the other day.

So heres the dealieo, I was trying to connect to other computers on my network, and I got impatient, and started cycling through the consoles, and everything started moving really really slow, so I did a hard restart, and when it booted back up, I could start up gnome with root, but not with my user account. I had been in a user account when I had previously been running gnome.

I have created another user account, and that doesn't start up gnome either.

Thanks for your time and help

-Eric-

Are you getting any error messages? If so, could you post them please.

The last couple lines say:

Using vt 7
(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:2:0:1) found
(EE)fglrx(0): incompatible kernel module detected - HW accelerated OpenGL will not work
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/, removing from list!

waiting for X server to shut down

but when I run startx from my root account, it has the same at the end, except it says:

AUDIT: Thu Jul 14 14:33:15 2005: 27068 X: client 5 rejected from local host

waiting for X server to shut down


when I try to start up gnome using my user account, it gets so that it readjusts the screen resolution, and I can see the mouse cursor for a split second, as a little black x in the center of the screen, and then it jumps back to the console.

-Eric-