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#1 2010-08-28 15:38:00
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GDM don't start!
I have tried both deamon and inittab mehtod but gdm doesn't start att starup.... It give me a error but i had no time to read it! help
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#2 2010-08-28 15:40:53
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Re: GDM don't start!
Well without errors, there's pretty much nothing we can do. I guess you'll have to find out anyway 
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#3 2010-08-28 15:44:58
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Re: GDM don't start!
/var/log/ directory contains logs that may be of interest to you.
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#4 2010-08-28 15:47:49
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Re: GDM don't start!
I have tried both deamon and inittab mehtod but gdm doesn't start att starup.... It give me a error but i had no time to read it! help
I suppose you mean that it flashed by too quickly to read it 
Please check your logs (/var/log/Xorg.0.log in particular, there may also be a gdm log...) and post any relevant findings.
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#5 2010-08-28 16:29:37
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Re: GDM don't start!
I ran into this problem when I had xf86-video-nouveau
I had to remove it and use xf86-video-nv
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#6 2010-08-28 21:00:30
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Re: GDM don't start!
I ran into this problem when I had xf86-video-nouveau
I had to remove it and use xf86-video-nv
I had not xf86-input-nouveau but i tried to install xf86-video-nv and now it's works!
Someone that knows why?
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#7 2010-08-28 21:03:57
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Re: GDM don't start!
72linus wrote:I ran into this problem when I had xf86-video-nouveau
I had to remove it and use xf86-video-nvI had not xf86-input-nouveau but i tried to install xf86-video-nv and now it's works!
Someone that knows why?
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#8 2010-08-28 21:17:53
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Re: GDM don't start!
yeah
see I make livecd stuff so must have all the xf86-* drivers,etc
and I noticed this when booting on my pc
great you got it going!
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#9 2010-08-28 22:57:00
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Re: GDM don't start!
owd wrote:72linus wrote:I ran into this problem when I had xf86-video-nouveau
I had to remove it and use xf86-video-nvI had not xf86-input-nouveau but i tried to install xf86-video-nv and now it's works!
Someone that knows why?
poorly configured x
Why should I need to config the nouveau driver when i use the "real" nvidia drivers? Don't make any sense...
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#10 2010-08-29 02:01:27
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Re: GDM don't start!
xf86-video-nv is not the "real" nvidia driver. It's the obfuscated nvidia open-source driver that has been deprecated by nouveau. If you want the proprietary one, check the wiki.
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#11 2010-08-29 09:13:34
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Re: GDM don't start!
xf86-video-nv is not the "real" nvidia driver. It's the obfuscated nvidia open-source driver that has been deprecated by nouveau. If you want the proprietary one, check the wiki.
Alright, but i had already the proprietary NVIDIA drivers installed and GDM doesn't start before I installed xf86-input-nv, so the problem was i my propitary drivers? But how can I get gdm works with the propitary drivers then?
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#12 2010-08-29 09:23:14
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Re: GDM don't start!
so after install nvidia and nvidia-utils you need to restart because kernel 2.6.35 has nouveau enabled by default. restarting you ensure that nouveau is blacklisted and doesn't use your card anymore. nvidia package has a blacklist file for nouveau
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#13 2010-08-29 09:30:10
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Re: GDM don't start!
so after install nvidia and nvidia-utils you need to restart because kernel 2.6.35 has nouveau enabled by default. restarting you ensure that nouveau is blacklisted and doesn't use your card anymore. nvidia package has a blacklist file for nouveau
Ok, thx!
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