Re: X error
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 12:22:39AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> on Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 09:28:57PM -0800, Bob Nielsen (nielsen@oz.net) wrote:
> > I had a problem with woody several days ago where X would die
> > immediately after starting, before the window manager took over. In
> > trying to fix it, I really messed up my X installation, so I decided to
> > downgrade to potato and did a fresh installation of 2.2r2. I did this
> > and everything was working fine (including X).
> >
> > Since I had started with a somewhat minimal installation I just added a
> > lot of new packages and now X dies immediately after starting with no
> > messages, which is the same behaviour I had before with woody.
> >
> > System is a K6/2-350 with 128 MB, Cirrus 5430-based video card with
> > 2048k videoram.
> >
> > Any ideas as to where I should be looking?
>
> How are you starting X? Command line or /etc/init.d scripts? Find an
> appropriate .xsession-errors file lying around anywhere?
I use startx on the command line. There is no .xsession-errors (I
think that only exists in X 4.x).
Funny thing is that I can run win4lin with the fwin command with no
problems. I just can't start an X session by itself. I've tried
different window managers with no effect. This is what occurred with
woody (running xserver-svga, not xserver-xfree86, since that appears to
be slightly broken and won't support 1024x768 resolution on my card).
There is a slight difference in what happens with potato and what
happened with woody--in potato when it dies the line "waiting for X
server to shut down" gets written, while in woody that message did not
show up.
I tried reinstalling xserver-common, xserver-svga, xfree86-common,
xbase-clients and xlib6g, but that made no difference. I think I'll
try uninstalling the X apps I added and see if the problem can be
traced to the existence of a specific package, but I doubt it will
help.
Bob
>
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