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gdm, gnome-shell and cinnamon won't work

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https://bbs.archlinux.org – Hi all. I have a netbook which uses the cedar view driver for its graphics(GMA 3600) and I can't get gdm, gnome or cinnamon to work. Xfce, lxde and SLiM work fine.When I do systemctl start gdm then the screen goes black and a watch icon appears which I can move. I then get errors about journalctl not being able to write log due to there being too many arguments. After that I can't move my mouse.Gnome and cinnamon say an error has and that I have to log out and try again. At that time my cursor is invisible.Thanks for the help. theblazehen https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.ph (HowTos)

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