Please don't post a question in reply to another, unrelated one; starting a new thread makes it far more likely that people will see, and respond to your mail. On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 08:40:50PM -0000, Charlie Taylor wrote: > I can't start a GUI and am lost so any help would be appreciated. > > The problem: > Installed fine, then came to the command line and typed startx - a few lines > of information was printed to the screen before the screen went blank. I > couldn't reboot by ctrl-alt-del/bkspace, I couldn't do anything but switch > the computer off and on again. If I try to reboot into GUI mode the same > happens. > > Further information: > using "xinit >& xinit.log" I get: > X: X: cannot execute binary file > giving up > > ./xinit: Connection refused > ./xinit: No such process How did you install X? You need, at the very least, the 'x-window-system-core' package (and it's dependencies). Also, does running 'X' start the X server? > I can't understand the first part of this problem, "X: cannot execute binary > file". > > Do I need to specify a different driver for my video card? I have a s3 > prosavage PM133 (ID 8A25), and the driver currently specified in the > XFree86Config-4 file is simply "savage". Is your XF86Config-4 correct? 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86' should generate a working one. > I read on one website (www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html) about problems with > savage chipsets using less up-to-date versions of XFree86. While that might be a problem, but it's not the cause of this. > I don't know how > to update XFree86...any pointers? If it turns out that you need this, you can get X 4.2 from http://people.debian.org/~blade/woody/. -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> http://ertius.org/ If I want a CC, I'll ask for one! | Do I *look* like I want another damn war?
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