Hi, I have the same problem recently but I didn't recompile the kernel. Check
out my post at: http://nts.ml.org/inspiron/msg00190.html
>
> Hello all,
>
> I am new to this mailing list and I am new to Linux on the
> Inspirons. I have an Inspiron 3000 M233ST. I have been able to get
> everything working except Xwindows. I downloaded the latest version of
> XBF-Neomagic, but it just crashes. I get this error when I try to run
> startx :
>
> execve failed for /etc/X11/X (errno 2)
>
> After that error then it just bombs out. I was viewing the archives of this
> mailing list and saw an email which said that I would have to re-compile my
> kernel using GCC 2.7.x instead of version 2.8.x which is what is precompiled
> on the RedHat 5.1 CDs I received from RedHat software. Could someone please
> confirm that this is what I have to do. I really hope there is some other
> workaround to this. Any info is really appreciated. Thank You
>
> Ricardo Panez
> Cambridge Technology Partners
> Miami IT
>
>
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