X window system
I have installed Potato 2.2r4 on a third box and am
having difficulty in getting X to work.The mobo and
cpu were running Potato on an upgraded box, and the
harddisk held Slink for a long time.Kernel is 2.2.19,
and xfree-common etc packages are v.3.3.6-11.
Normally, Debian gets X to go OK after I run
'xf86config'. This time it didn't and initially gave
problems with fonts about which I asked for and got
help. What happens now is:-
1. Booting is apparently normal but I get dumped into
a blank screen. Ctrl+Alt+Fx puts me into a console
and I can use the system normally except that during
the first two or three commandline instructions I
get the error message:-
'probable hardware bug:clock timer configuration
lost - probably a VIA686a.
restoring chip configuration'
2. If I then run 'startx', I'm told:-
'server is already active for display 0
Xlib - connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib - Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE etc
xinit - unable to connect etc, no such process
(errno3) etc'
I expect this for I understand that display is the
default, but which program sets it.
Comparing 'printenv' with my other two boxes,
'DISPLAY=:0.0' and 'KDE_DISPLAY=:0.0' are missing
and my attempts to set these by hand fail - they
disappear on reboot.
4. If I try to run 'XF86Setup', I fail - error:-
'X11TransSocketUNIXconnect - can't connect: error111.
I should have got to grips with X window system when
I first started, didn't do so and now find the docs
confuse me (most are not Debian specific).
Is the above sufficient to enable a diagnosis of the
problem to be made? Could someone give me a short
rundown on the basics as they relate to Debian.
I'd be very grateful for help. I have two other boxes
runnin 2.2.r4, but I cannot trace any files missing
which could account for my problem.
john.
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