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X11 Re: Newbie installation



On Tue, 29 Jun 2004, Carl Fink wrote:

> Are you familiar with "screen"?  Capture the session where you run
> startx.  Also, tail some logs (especially messages) and see if
> anything interesting is there.  (You could use "grep free86 *" in
> /var/log/ if you wanted.)

you can also see /var/log/XFree86*

and sanity check with X -probeonly so you don't need to wait while
X tries 3x to get it up and failing, and prevent you from logging in
unless you're superfast typist

c ya
alvin



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