getting gnome running under debian

[Erik Heil]

Hello.  Did you by any chance start the X server?  Dounds to me like its not
started or perhaps its not configured correctly.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg at romuald.net.eu.org>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 10:38 PM
Subject: getting gnome running under debian


> Hi all.
>
> I've decided to setup gnome on my play box, mostly because I was lazy,
> and didn't feel like compiling festival under slackware, and as I
> hoped, there were binary festival packages already available for
> debian, so I installed that.
>
> Anyway, I seem to have everything installed (gnome and dependencies,
> gnopernicus and dependencies, xfree86-common and dependencies,
> ETC.). When the system starts, I'm told that gdm is being started, and
> then I get my standard login prompt. Then, something like this comes
> up:
>
> missing display, cannot find console dialogue
>
> I'm not sure if that's the exact text, since it's not on the screen for me
> to cut and paste here, but it's close to what it actually says.
>
> Could someone please enlighten me as to what I'm missing?
> Thanks.
>
> Greg
>
>
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