On Sunday 25 August 2002 13:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sunday 25 August 2002 14:55, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > On Sun, 25 Aug 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > i used like 3 different tools, a manual one, an automated one > > > and another one > > > with a graphical interface, and btw, i use slack > > > > Names (command names) would be useful. > > i tried xfree86setup, xf86cfg and xf86config > > > > > also - you get lots of messages when you run X, on the > > > > console from which you ran 'startx'. can you copy them > > _all_ into a > > > > > file, and send them over? > > > > > > i attached the file with the errors to this message > > > > From a first look at there it seems that the server is up, > > but all clients > > > somehow failed to run. Though I maybe mis-reading it. > > > > As a simlpe test, run: > > > > xinit /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm > > > > or: > > > > xinit /usr/X11R6/bin/twm > > > > (or whatever: a full path to some X client. Must begin with '/') > > i got the same result, black screen with flashes of the X > screen from time to time (if at all, changes every time). > i also tried running X :0.0 and got the same
As root try: XFree86 -configure This would try to autodected the hardware and write the file to roots home dir. This file is only a skeleton but it should get you started. IIRC this wroks from 4.2.0 and up. -- Meir Kriheli MKsoft systems http://www.mksoft.co.il ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
