GDM doesn't start..

[pepe999]

Hi all,
I've already written a post about my problems on SL 5.1 Gnome x86_64 on this forum. However, I took a challenge and tried to install it. I boot on to the live dvd with a cheat code "xdriver=vesa". It was in a low resolution but I got a live dvd SL 5.1 working. I installed it but can't get into the X server. It doesn't work even with the vesa driver. There is an error in a log..

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* Setting up gdm...
/usr/bin/gdm: error while loading shared libraries: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
* start-stop-daemon: failed to start `/usr/bin/gdm'
* ERROR: could not start the Display Manager
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I found out that libGL.so.1 is in /usr/lib32(64)/opengl/xorg-X11/lib
but I don't know where it suppose to be or what's wrong. While booting up the screen says that there is an unknown domain..
Thx for help..

[dunsurfin]

Would it be worth reinstalling GDM?

[pepe999]

I can't reinstall anything because I haven't connected to the internet and sync repositories yet...

edit: I tried to connect Sabayon in the shell to the internet but no luck yet.

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iwconfig wlan0 mode managed channel X key open "passcode" essid BTHome...

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iwconfig wlan0 ap "mac address"

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dhclient wlan0

iwconfig says something like this..

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wlan0     IEEE 802.11abgn  ESSID:"BTHomeHub2-XXXX" 
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.442 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated   


[Thev00d00]

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# eselect opengl list
# eselect opengl set 1/2/3

[Azerthoth]

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# nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf


change video driver to vesa

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# /etc/init.d/xdm restart


Now you have GUI and networking manager. Proceed with upgrade procedure.

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# equo update ; equo install entropy ; equo conf update ; equo upgrade


[pepe999]

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# nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf


change video driver to vesa

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# /etc/init.d/xdm restart


Now you have GUI and networking manager. Proceed with upgrade procedure.

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# equo update ; equo install entropy ; equo conf update ; equo upgrade


Thanks for your reply but I can't boot to the X server even with the vesa driver!! I'm going to try Thev00d00 commands so hope it will work..

[pepe999]

Thanks Thev00d00!!
I'm syncing Portage at the moment and I should reinstall nvidia driver and also kernel I suppose..

edit: I'm updating now including nvidia driver 190.53..

[pepe999]

Done updating but no luck. I installed nvidia-drivers 190.53, but after reboot it was still in a low resolution. Then I installed nvidia-settings, but there is only 185.53 version so this might be a problem because after that is just "black screen death"..
There is also nvidia-drivers 190.42 but it's masked. I think that nvidia-settings and nvidia-drivers should be the same, I mean kernel. Am I right? I suppose that nvidia-drivers 185.53 might be working on my laptop but I couldn't find them in Sulfur..