Gnome Display Manager

[Jonathan Rawle]

Rob Brown-Bayliss wrote:

> 2) press ctrl-alt-F1, this will swap to a text screen, log in as root.
> at the prompt type telinit 3 and press enter. this will shut down all X
> sesions. install your drivers, then type telinit 5 which will restart X
> and gdm.
> 
> just to be safe, after changing your X config, type startx and make sure
> it works before doing telinit 5.
> 

A nice feature of X in FC is that it disables itself for 5 minutes if it
fails to start a few times. If there's a problem with the drivers, you'll
initially get a flashing login prompt that seems quite alarming - it's
impossible to do anything. But after about 10 attempts an ncurses-style
message appears and after that X is disabled.

Jonathan