Re: potato broke X :(

[Ron Farrer <rbf@toxic.magnesium.net>]

David Coe (david@someotherplace.org) wrote:

> are you starting X with 'startx' or xdm (or have you tried both)?

I use xdm, but I've tried 'startx'. That's how I got to see the error
message.

> 
> is there anything in .xsession.errors?

The only thing in '/root/.xsession-errors' is:
X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).

> 
> what versions (potato is not specific enough) of the x packages and 
> window managers are you using?

Sorry.

# dpkg --print-avail xserver*
Package 'xserver' is not available.

WTF? Did I do something wrong in the command?


And no, I don't usually login as root. I'm only doing it right now because
of my problems.

> 
> X is working well on potato systems, so something more speicifc
> is the problem.  Post and we'll help.
> 

Okay, thank you!


TIA,

Ron
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