Re: need help getting X server running...

[martin@internet-treff.uni-koeln.de (Martin Bialasinski)]

>> "JE" == Jesse Evans <jpjevans@earthlink.net> writes:

JE> How can I capture these messages into a file so that I
JE> may be able to see what's going on? I've tried looking in /var/log
JE> to see if anythere seems related, but haven't found anything.
JE> I think what I want to do is redirect stderr into a file, but
JE> I'm new to linux and don't know how to make that happen.

STDERR ist the second channel (don't know if this is the correct
word). so you do 

startx 2> /tmp/startx.errors

Or to capture both STDOUT and STDERR, do

startx > /tmp/startx.errors 2>&1

This will redirect STDOUT and also redirect STDERR into STDOUT 
(the first channel).

Ciao,
	Martin