Re: XF86 4.0.1

[Sean Middleditch <sean middleditch iname com>]

Peter A Barros wrote:

> I recently installed RedHat 6.2 and I was using the gnome desktop quite
> happily, but today i just updated to XF86 4.0.1. and now when i do
> "startx" i don't get the nice gnome desktop but rather some unix-esque (i
> have no clue what it is, i'm a mac person myself, and fairly new to all
> this jazz...) terminal windows
>
> is my gnome gone?
> can i get it back, if so how?
> if not, can i download a new one from somewhere, and will it work on
> 4.0.1?
>
> any help would be greatly appreciated...
>

I might be way off, but I believe the default X settings overwrote the ones
that launch GNOME.  If you didn't delete your old X (you should have just
installed over it), then setting the login manager option in /etc/inittab
back to gdm might be a good idea.

Sean Middleditch