If you just type in startx you'll only get the ugly xorg wm running. So to get Gnome running the .xinitrc needs to have an entry like 'exec startkde' for example to run the preferred environment. Don't know what to use for Gnome because I haven't used it for ages. Perhaps exec gnome-session or something like that.
To test if Xorg really works with a detected configuration just run X -configure as root. But as you've already got X going because the wm started up without any complaints I'd assume that everything is ok with your configuration.
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