Beartooth wrote:
I can't imagine why startx would work immediately after
logging
in in text mode, without touching anything that affects the configuration
of X; and it seems a strange, roundabout approach. But I'm willing to try
it, if I understand aright what it is I'm to try.
I don't understand it either but similar things happen to me. If I boot into
runlevel 5 I only get a black screen. If I boot into runlevel 3, log in as
root and run "init 5 ; exit", then X starts just fine. I've described the
problem here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=448340
Weird.
Björn Persson