Re: startx problem

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Jennifer wrote:

> > Looks like two modules are butting heads trying to do the same thing.
> > I'm not familiar with "xtt", but I think
> > that only"freetype" is used in typical setups.  Edit /etc/X11/XF86Config
> > - probably towards the top there's a "Module" section that contains
> > lines like
> >
> > Load "xtt"
> > Load "freetype"
> >
> > Delete or comment out (#) the "xtt" line and see if that helps.
> >
> >    
> ** Hi, Todd, I edit /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 (by the way, it is XF86Config-4,
> not XF86Config). and commented out (#) the line of Load xtt.
> Now I reboot and startx. I still could not start X, and it came another
> problem. Something like:
> Fatal server error:
> Add Scren/ScrenInit failed for driver0
> Please see the attached for detail.
>
> What should I do next? Thank you very much for your advice
> Jennifer
>
>  
It looks like you may be using the framebuffer. Look in XF86Config-4 for 
a line referring to "framebuffer", and if it's set to "Yes", set it to 
"No" and give that a try.

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Kent


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