Re: Xserver
On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 00:26:25 -0800
J Y <jhy@x-mail.net> wrote:
> Hi I am new to debian, but have used those big commercial distros.
> I installed 3.0 but am not having any luck getting X to start. I reinstalled several
> times taking a lot of time checking the packages. But login just leaves me at the
> command line. I type startx and get this response: Build Operating system: linux
> 2.4.17i686 (ELF) module loader present (==) log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log",
> (EE) Unable to locate/open config file
> (EE) Error from xf86Handle Config File ()
> Fatal Server error
> no screens found
>
> XIO: Fatal IO error 104 (connection reset by peer)
> on X server
> "0.0" after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0
> events remaining.
>
> This is happening on a athlon (900mhz) homebuilt. I haven't had any display/X server
> problems with SuSe or Mandrake.
> Anyone have any ideas?? Thanks Oh I just remembered the command line message says to
> get system message from /var/log/XFree86.0.log but I looked and that file doesn't exsist.
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The install (I believe) configures XF86Config, whereas the newest "X"
looks for XF86Config-4. I had the same "problem" when I installed
Debian this past weekend. This is what worked for me:
mv /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.orig
cp /etc/X11/XF86Config /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
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