[CentOS] help with Xlib

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 22:24 -0500, Steve Huff wrote:
> On Jan 11, 2006, at 10:17 PM, Craig White wrote:
> 
> > thanks but you are still over my head.
> >
> > xhost +localhost returns the same error.
> >
> > DisallowTCP is commented in /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf
> >
> > The issue seems to be that gdm isn't running...is it supposed to be
> > running in runlevel 3?
> >
> > If so...what is the right way to start it?
> 
> 
> switch to runlevel 5:
> 
> # /sbin/init 5
> 
> this will make gdm start.  however, you may also want to create the  
> file /etc/X1.hosts and populate it with the hostnames or IP addresses  
> of the machine(s) from which you will be connecting.
> 
> do this before you go to runlevel 5.
> 
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run level 5 is a bit of a problem. There's no monitor connected and I
didn't ever configure X since when I installed CentOS (the moment when I
did have a monitor attached), I didn't install X.

A switch to runlevel 5 doesn't seem possible without a monitor connected
and configuration created for xorg.

for good measure though - I did create /etc/X1.hosts per advice and
populated with...

localhost
fqdn

and it made no difference.

Thanks

Craig