Well, I followed all the instruction and got gnome installed and booting.  
(Woo hoo!)  I also got X installed and working.  But I wanted a real desktop 
manager.  I went to CD 2 and untarred every package that started with 
"gnome."  Then I changed the last line of the /etc/rc.conf file to make the X 
session a Gnome sesssion.  It tries to start, gets the "X" cursors and fails 
without any error messages, not to the screen or the the log file.  There was 
formerly a failure from the "Hostname" command - the host name is set but the 
NIC is not yet configured - so I added the hostname to the "hosts" file, and 
that went away.  I think that's a red herring, though, or X wouldn't work at 
all.  Do any of you gentoo gurus out there know if there are any other 
necessary steps (that I may have missed) to getting gnome to work?

Thanks,
Vaughn
---------------------------------------------------
PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change  you mail settings:
http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss