Startx & gdm give blank screen

Question

I'd like to get GNOME installed for a GUI environment. Proving difficult. Anybody have any idea how to help me?
typing "startx" gives blank screen
setting "systemctl enable gdm" gives blank screen after boot
setting "systemctl start gdm" gives blank screen
I installed brand new Arch (2014.10.01) following the wiki step by step. Everything worked okay. So I set out to get gnome installed.
To install gnome, I installed:
xorg-server
xorg-xinit
xf86-video-intel
libva-intel-driver
libva
lib32-mesa-libgl (after uncommenting pacman.conf)
gnome (with all 1-40)
I tried adding "exec gnome-session" to the ~./xinitrc file and then rebooting but this did nothing.
Did I miss installing something? Some file need configuring?
By the way, how do I get internet at boot automatically without having to type "dhcpcd <ethernet-adapter-name here>" after every boot?

Answer 1

bzpnbx wrote:
I'd like to get GNOME installed for a GUI environment. Proving difficult. Anybody have any idea how to help me?
typing "startx" gives blank screen
setting "systemctl enable gdm" gives blank screen after boot
setting "systemctl start gdm" gives blank screen
I installed brand new Arch (2014.10.01) following the wiki step by step. Everything worked okay. So I set out to get gnome installed.
To install gnome, I installed:
xorg-server
xorg-xinit
xf86-video-intel
libva-intel-driver
libva
lib32-mesa-libgl (after uncommenting pacman.conf)
gnome (with all 1-40)
I tried adding "exec gnome-session" to the ~./xinitrc file and then rebooting but this did nothing.
Did I miss installing something? Some file need configuring?
By the way, how do I get internet at boot automatically without having to type "dhcpcd <ethernet-adapter-name here>" after every boot?
Not sure how to fix it, but you should need the base install, xorg-server, gnome, and I usually include the option xorg-server-utils but that shouldn't be needed?
At that point you should be able to enable/start GDM and if everything goes good it will work. Obviously not your case, I just say this to point out that so far your not wrong...
No idea on that one, but first I would be looking at making sure I had the right video drivers for xorg (see the xorg wiki page about identifying video card with 'lspci | grep -e VGA -e 3D' ), and look up the logs to see what X is actually doing and if its running and just outputing to the wrong display or if there are errors, ect...
Internet kind depends on how/what your trying to do, however in your case the most normal thing would likely be to install network manager, then you will probably also have to download a gnome network manager applet (I think its network-manager-applet)
This will give you the normal system tray icon to manage your network manager settings.
With only a command line I typically prefer wifi-menu for ease.