> 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.
I remember when I first installed X in my Debian 1.1 box that X came up for a second or so and the exit. After I examined the log files in /var/log I realized that the problem was that my old XF86Config file that worked under a previous installation of X under Slackware was referencing my mouse as /dev/mouse, being /dev/mouse a symlink to /dev/psaux, the real device. After I changed the XF86Config file to reference the real file in /dev everything worked fine. Try looking at the differences between your Slackware setup and your new Debian setup. Take a look at the log files from the X server. The answer has to be there. Regards, E.- -- Eloy A. Paris Information Technology Department Rockwell Automation de Venezuela Telephone: +58-2-9432311 Fax: +58-2-9430323 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
