Re: potato broke X :(

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

David Coe (david@someotherplace.org) wrote:

> Well, as a starting point, try just this:
> 
> 1) exit to be sure we start clean
> 2) login (as root or a normal user, doesn't really matter for this test,
> maybe even try both to see if there are differences).
> 3) at the shell prompt just type 'xinit' and watch to see what happens;
> it will either spew out a bunch of text and start an X window with a
> single xterm (from which you can 'exit'), or it will spew out a bunch of
> text and fail just like before.  Let me know what it does, and what it
> spews. 

Okay, I logged in as root and typed 'xinit' and it went to vt7 and just
sits there with a blank screen. Switching back to the vt that I started
with, it has the error I previously posted about connection broken.


TIA,

Ron
-- 
=========================
= Ronald Burnett Farrer =
=========================
------------------------------------
- "mailto:rbf@magnesium.net";       -
- "http://www.magnesium.net/~rbf/"; -
------------------------------------
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
! If you let Windows dominate, expect the worst: !
! "WORLD.SYS is corrupt, reboot UNIVERSE Y/n"    !
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
???????????????????????????????????????????????????????
? "How could this [Y2K Bug] be a problem in a country ?
? where we have Intel and Microsoft?" -- Al Gore      ?
???????????????????????????????????????????????????????