Re: x windows

[Matt Brubeck <mbrubeck@hmc.edu>]

On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, Clay Ginsburg wrote:

> x-windows isn't currently working on my computer [ ... ].
> Anyway, the first thing i did was creat a sym link to /dev/usbmouse. 
> I then changed the pointer to USB.  i ran startx and said it wasn't 
> support by OS.

Under XFree86 on Linux, the type should be set to IMPS/2.

> For the rest of my problem, you need more info(somehting about signal 
> 11 captured)  anyway, is there a way to easily dump the error 
> messages that startx makes into another file? startx > log.txt 
> doens't work.

If you're running XFree86, /var/log/XFree86.0.log should be useful. If you
use xdm, also check /var/log/xdm.log .