Re: newbie needs help w/X
disregard, i fixed it by updating the x packages from the
debian site, Xsun24 server works now, learned a lot about
apt, apt-get and dselect in the process....
Donald Knecht wrote:
>
> i've just wiped SuSE 7.3 from my ss20 and installed
> potato...(my first time w/ debian)..can't get x working with Xsun24
> server,
> looking through the lists archives, it seems others have
> run into this problem, but i can't find a solution.....
> one gentleman who had this problem gave up and installed
> woody, i'm on a dial-up and would rather not have to download
> a lot of upgrade stuff, so i'm hoping someone can help.
>
> the error message i get when i try to run "startx" is:
>
> PEXExtensionInit: Couldn't open default PEX font file Roman_M
> sunMouseProc ioctl VUIDGFORMAT: Invalid argument
>
> Fatal server error:
> failed to initialize Core devices
>
> X connection to:0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown)
>
> i agree with previous posts on the subject, that the PEX stuff isn't
> fatal,
> is the mouse thing? i have a optical mouse plugged into a type 5
> keyboard....
> i have made sure that gpm is not installed and the daemon is not
> running.
>
> TIA,
> don
>
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