Re: Help needed with Xwindows on PB Linux box

[Kent West <westk@nicanor.acu.edu>]

David Hass wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> I'm having trouble getting XWindows running on my Packard Bell Force
> 480CD with 8 MB ram, Cirrus CL-GD5434 chipset, 1024 kb video ram and
> Debian linux.
> 
> I've tried many settings with XF86Setup and xf86Config.  No luck.
> 
> I type startx and it starts up, gives me the coarse screen with the X,
> and then shuts down with no error messages.
> 
> I would appreciate any ideas.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Dave Hass
> 

I ran into this problem the other day and it turned out to be really
simple. My /etc/X11/window-managers had no window managers listed. I
added one and that fixed it.