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On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 11:07 PM, Todd And Margo Chester
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> Hi All,
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> I only installed SL6 Basic server. This means I have no graphics and am
> sitting at run level 3. Now that Xfce 4.8 x86_64 is out, I am about to get
> my graphics. I will not be able to physically get at my new server until
> Monday. So, some stupid question till I can see for myself.
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> I plan on installing kmod-nvidia and nvidia-x11-drv from elrepo
> and group installing xfce from epel.
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> Just out of curiosity, do I need to install gdm as well? Or, will it
> get caught in a tidal wave of dependencies?
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> Also, do you see any flaws in my plan?
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> Many thanks,
> -T
gdm is most useful for runlevel 5. You don't *HAVE* to use this: you
can log in at the console or other windows and use "startx" to start
your X session.
The big question is, what *else* did you leave out in doing a basic
installation? xauth? xterm? Firefox? OpenOffice? Emacs with X
capibility, rather than emacs-nox? I'll urge you to take a look at
"yum list" and pick out application syou want, and pre-install them.
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