On Thursday 24 June 2004 19:00, Michael Banck wrote: > On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 07:42:07PM +0300, Ognyan Kulev wrote: > > Thierry LACOSTE wrote: > > >When I run startx the screen turns black for one or two minutes > > >and then the computer reboots. > > I think this is normal right now if a fatal problem (like when your > graphics card is not supported) occurs. Check > /var/log/XFree86.log.0 (or similar) and see the console output. > I checked /var/log/XFree86.0.log which ends with
Fatal server error: Cannot set event mode on keyboard (Inappropriate ioctl for device) > You need to append --repeat=/dev/kbd or something to the console command > in order to make X run successfully. > When I run starx --repeat=/dev/kbd I have the same problem. Regards, Thierry.
