Re: [newbie]Please help with Matrox G400 and XFree 4.1.0
On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Simon Law wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, R. Alexander wrote:
>
> > Dear friends,
> > I have desperately searched some appends but really cannot understand if
> > they apply to my case.
> >
> > With XFree 3.x I had a perfect XF86Config for my Matrox G400 driving my 16"
> > TFT display.
> >
> > Upgraded to 4.1.10 (on a 2.4.10 kernel) and am not able to get the
> > XF86Config-4 to work and I cannot even understand why it fails !!
> >
> > Behaviour is that after startx for a fraction of a second I see the familiar
> > correct gray stippled pattern filling my screen but than after a couple of
> > "flashes" it dies back to the text console.
> >
> > Below is the startx 2> output and the XF86Config-4 file. Thank you VERY VERY
> > VERY much for you help. Bob Alexander
> >
>
> My guess is that you don't have a window manager or anything.
> This means that X just starts up, notices that it's finished running all
> the programs, and quits gracefully.
Close. The problem is that /etc/X11/Xsession.d/99-??? file needs to be
edited to remove the quote marks.
Seriously, isn't this problem big enough to warrant a new release of that
package? It causes X to NOT START for Pete's sake!
-jwb
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