Re: X windows...

[David Warnock <david@sundayta.co.uk>]

Noel Yap wrote:
> 
> David Warnock wrote:
> > I suggest you look in the man pages for startx. You should see that the
> > default X server to start is X. On my system that was starting the wrong
> > server so I changed X to be a symbolic link to XF86_SVGA.
>                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> On a Debian system, /usr/bin/X11/X is not a symlink at all but actually
> a wrapper program that checks the file /etc/X11/Xserver for the proper X
> server to call.  You'll want the first line in that file to read
> "/usr/bin/X11/XF86_SVGA".  See /usr/doc/xbase/README.Debian for more
> information.
 
Noel

Thanks, looks like I goofed. I was sure I had not done this the right
way but had a lot of dificulty finding what was happening. There seem to
be so many files used in the startup of X.

I guess that if I get dselect to re-install the base X package I can get
the correct X file back?

That README.Debian is bery useful - I wish I had found it sooner.

Thanks

Dave