also sprach nori heikkinen <nori@sccs.swarthmore.edu> [2002.01.11.0037 +0100]: > that's what i'm trying. just no luck so far. i haven't had much time > to spend on this yet, though, and have no idea how to proceed. so > when i get a second i'll go google it out and see what i can do from > there. fair enough. that's the spirit! > > not really. maybe i am misremembering. but it's highly prefered over > > editing XF86Config by hand. unless you want to read the manpages, web, > > and spend some time to get it working. it *is* possible, they say... > > oh! i get it, xf86config. i know you always write in lowercase, > martin, so it confused me when you told me to "have a look at > xf86config," which i took to be XF86Config -- and tried to edit it by > hand, at which point it was, as i said, small and seemingly useless. :). sorry, i do have the habbit to actually include command names/lines in backquotes. i simply forgot. sorry. > :) have since run xf86config, to no avail, as every time i attempt to > startx afterwards, it picks a random section or subsection of the > file, and says > > Section "InputDevice" > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > not a recognized section name that's because you are trying to run the XFree 4.x server, but xf86config is for XFree86 3.3.6 only. use `dexconf` for 4.x. then again, why would 4.x be reading the XF86Config file? it has XF86Config-4 to worry. do this: `mv /var/log/xdm.log /tmp` and then `xdm` and look at /var/log/xdm.log to figure out which version is actually started. then configure using the appropriate command with your best effort. if it still fails, `rm` the xdm.log one more time, do `xdm` one more time, and then attach the xdm.log file to an email to me (*not* the list). > orange:~> cat /etc/environment > LANG=en > > so i added in the other two, to no avail. :-P are these still the perl errors you are seeing, or are they different. do they persist if you do while read i; do eval export $i; done < /etc/environment and then run the command that causes the errors again? -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; net@madduck only through hard work and perseverance can one truly suffer.
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