Re: Help with X (after upgrade to Woody)
%% jennyw <jennyw@dangerousideas.com> writes:
j> By the way, my system apparently has no startx.
It sounds to me like your system is missing some very important
packages. There's no way you should be missing startx! That's a
fundamental script and it's in xbase-clients, which pretty much every X
installation should have.
It should be in /usr/X11R6/bin (or /usr/bin/X11, which should be a
symlink to the former).
If it's not there, you need to do something like:
# apt-get install xbase-clients
Personally I would disable GDM and use startx until you get your X
environment working; it's much simpler to stop/restart from the console
rather than through a display manager.
j> I start X using /etc/init.d/gdm start. The screen blinks for a
j> bit, then it stops, then it blinks for a bit more, then it stops,
j> then it does it again. I assume it's trying the three video modes
j> (640x480, 800x600 and 1024x768) that I selected, and is finding
j> that none of them works.
My first suspicion is you have a font problem. The font handling in
Woody is very different than in Potato, and in my experience it's not
entirely robust yet: I've had installs screw up my font lists for me.
The X server must find the "fixed" font or it won't start at all.
The X server will actually print lots of very helpful errors (albeit
sometimes somewhat arcane). If you're using GDM, go look in the
/var/log directory for a file like XFree86.0.log and see what errors are
shown there. startx will just spew them to the screen; you can redirect
them to a log like this:
$ startx &> error.log
If you see errors in there about fonts, you should check your
/etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file; if you don't understand what's going on
there post it for us, at least the FontPath lines.
In any event, if you post the errors you find in your X log file someone
may be able to provide more help.
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