In your email to me, Tasos Drosopoulos, you wrote: > 3. OK now, request help for this: My preference in using Linux is doing > most of my editing work on a console and only when I need graphics go to > X-windows. So I prefer to use startx and not xdm. The XFree86 3.2 that > comes with slackware works fine. However, with debian, the screen flashes > once, X-windows seem to come up for a second and then promptly exit. > Obviously, I need to do some additional configuration. Something to do > with the window managers perhaps? I would appreciate any pointers / > suggestions > on this.
Take a look in your home dir for a file named .xsession-errors (or something like that). That will tell you why X11 died. My guess is that /usr/X11R6/lib is missing from your /etc/ld.so.conf Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps "Cogito, ergo sum. Cogito, ergo doleo. Cogito sumere potum alterum." I think, I am. I think, I am depressed. I think I'll have another drink. -- Rob Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
