Consider editing Xorg.conf leaving just very basic sections, and start from there.
Most problems with X's starting is related to the wrong driver settings in Device section, something like that: Section "Device" Identifier "Device0" Driver "vesa" #Choose the driver used for this monitor EndSection Vesa driver is very generic driver, which work with most of the GPU's, no acceleration and poor resolution, but you can treat it as a rollback solution. 2015-09-10 0:40 GMT+02:00 John D Groenveld <jdg...@elvis.arl.psu.edu>: > In message <CAAGy7qiKSTfTOTykNOSX6AuXhQgnWdw2ptt_azH8O=+ > sayn...@mail.gmail.com> > , "Rick C. Hodgin" writes: > >I then went to reboot, but X isn't coming back up. The OpenIndiana red > bar > >goes across repeatedly. When I finally press a key (numlock) it goes to a > >text terminal. I can login and do things, but no X. > > > >I tried svcadm enable gdm but no go. So what'd I do wrong? :-) > > Possibly a misconfiguration in /etc/X11/xorg.conf that might > be indicated in /var/log/Xorg.0.log > > John > groenv...@acm.org > > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss