getting gnome running under debian

[Kenny Hitt]

Hi.  Your X isn't working.  Check out /var/log/XFree86.0.log to find out
why.

Hope this helps.
          Kenny

On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 09:38:12PM -0600, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> 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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