Re: Start X problem


Subject: Re: Start X problem
From: matthew vidic (matt@procopyonline.com)
Date: Tue Jun 13 2000 - 13:57:52 MDT


Hi

Here are the details:

at a root prompt, the 'startx' command has some kind of effect. the screen
fills with text that scrolls very fast. the text at the top of the screen
disappears too fast to read. the screen fills with a long list of deleted
monitor specs (like FBDev:Mode "640 x 480" needs xxxhz deleted). i didnt
write those down.

the bottom reads:

'fatal server error: no "display" subsection for default depth 8
x connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown)'

i have reinstalled everything. the error reoccurred. ugh.

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> From: Vanja Bucic <vanjab@UDel.Edu> > Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com > Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 13:44:39 -0400 > To: <yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com> > Subject: Re: Start X problem > > on 06 13 2000 13:12, matthew vidic at matt@procopyonline.com wrote: > >> Brought out the magnet...actually, writing zeros to the drive. >> >> Hoping a fresh start catches any mistakes i made on install, if any. >> >> Should X work on a mac 9500 w/ppc 604e? The YDL manual says so. What am I >> missing here? >> >> Matt > > Could you explain the problem in a clearer fashion? > You say you used Xconfigurator; but you did not say if it worked (and did > you use startx?). Booting into console mode IS OK, and (if you asked me) is > a preferred way of booting up. All you need to do is type startx. > > So my question is: does the X server start or not (not at bootup!), and if > not what are the errors the X server is reporting. > > I apologize if you knew and did all this, but it was unclear from your > previous mail.



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