Re: need help getting X server running...
On Sat, 24 Oct 1998, Jesse Evans wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Thanks for the tips, but so far still no joy.
>
> Regarding posting all the messages, I can't even read them all.
> As the messages start to scroll up, the display blinks (trying to go into
> graphics mode, I suspect,) then comes back to text.
> Most of the (**) messages run past during this blank-out time.
>
> How can I capture these messages into a file so that I
> may be able to see what's going on? I've tried looking in /var/log
> to see if anythere seems related, but haven't found anything.
> I think what I want to do is redirect stderr into a file, but
> I'm new to linux and don't know how to make that happen.
Using xinit, they should be in $HOME/.xsession-errors.
if you use XDM, they get stored in /var/log/xdm-errors
HTH,
Matthew
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