Re: xfree86 3.3.5 in debian
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
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> Hi all,
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> although I'm not so familiar with such things I've dowlnloaded the recent
> xfree86 version 3.3.5 from xfree86 org pages because of the voodoo banshee
> support in that version. I followed their download and installation instructions
> and managed the first errors and problems - but at the end the xserver won't
> start. My suspicion is that the problems comes from different file structure.
> I've seen the postings here in that forum asking for somebody who has debianized
> the 3.3.4 - so it seems there need to be some changes to be made. The first
> thing I've found is that the XFree86Config file was in the "wrong" directory
> that means in a different one as of the old installation (/etc vs. /etc/X11).
> Also the XF86Config didn't run (it seems that it can't start the minimum
> vga-xserver) so that I used the command line programm xf86setup. What I get to
> see after startx is the grey/white starting window with the cross at mouse
> pointer position and nothing else happens.
> I piped the error output from startx to a file and it is as follows:
[snip]
> Can anybody help with this?
It looks suspiciously like you're missing the file .xinitrc in your home
directory. That's what tells X11 what window manager to use, and so on.
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