Re: X server problems
On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Braden N. McDaniel wrote:
> I've just installed Debian 2.0. While I have some rather superficial
> familiarity with Linux in general (have played with a few distributions),
> this is my first crack at Debian.
>
> This is what I get when I run startx:
>
> X: exec of /usr/bin/X11/XF86_NONE failed
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
You are not using the VGA server. In fact you aren't using any server
at all (/usr/bin/X11/XF86_NONE is used when there is no default X
server).
> _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2
> _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2
> _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2
> _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2
> _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2
> _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2
> giving up
> xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2)
> xinit: No such process (errno 3): server error
>
> I'm using a board with a Permedia2 chip, so I know I need to get the X
> server from SuSE eventually, but right now I'm just trying to get X up and
> running with the generic VGA X server. I gather from the messages that
> something didn't get installed or configured properly, but I don't know
> where to go from there.
You must install the VGA server in order to use it.
dpkg -i dists/stable/main/binary-i386/x11/xserver-vga16_3.3.2.3-1.deb
from the root of your Debian distribution.
(substitute binary-i386 with correct binary-folder if not Intel)
or use dselect to selecet the xserver-vga16 package.
If you have another xserver installed you will, when the package is
configured, be asked if you want to use VGA16 as default instead.
Answer Yes. If you want to change the default xserver by hand,
edit the file /etc/X11/Xserver.
Good luck
/fax
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