Are you sure about your monitor's sync rates? ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "linux-newbie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 1:23 PM Subject: more X problems
> Ok. I think I've now got my X problems down to more standard issues on > this mnimal Slack 8.1 install (2.4.18 kernel). I was able to get the > updated kernel to run, and I am no longer getting the crash with its log. > But something is still wrong. I got the new kernel going, went through > xf86config again. This time, I managed to find some sync values for my > monitor (14" epson extended vga -old!) which I entered in (30-35.5; 70) > and selected my S3 Trio 64V+ video card. There was a caveat about this > card being "basically unsupported" - whatever that means. So, now, when I > go "startx" from the command line, the HD runs and things seem to be > happening, but the screen goes blank and just sits there. By "blank" I > mean that it goes dark - like screen blanking when you have no screen > saver. And, it just sits there. I expect it to give some sort of > background - like crosshatching - and for an "X' to appear for the mouse > cursor. But no such thing ever happens. It just sits there blank (no > message about a server crash, no odd activity like HD churning). So, I'm > not quite sure where to go from here. Could someone advise me? I > should also mention that I don't have a window manager configured yet, > though I do have one installed - fvwm95. I assume that is a window manager > because it has the letters "wm" in its name (hope I'm right). But I > just don't know if I need a window manager to get any display at all out > of X. > > In closing, I'll just reaffirm my state of confusion regarding the way > the gui works under Linux. Despite Ray's helpful comments to some > questions I posed on this list earlier about how it all works, I've become > even more confused. There are things called, for example, "gdm" or "kdm". > I take the "dm" part to stand for "display manager." But I don't know how > display managers relate to window managers or the other things connected > with X that I asked about previously. Then, there are "session managers," > which are also a subject of confusion in all this. To top it all off, I > read an article at Linuxworld on X and Linux display that claimed that > Gnome and KDE are *not* window managers, but rather thay they *contain* a > window manager. So this seems some sort of meta-category with regard to > the 3 part scheme Ray provided in his helpful comments. I don't know if > I'll ever be able to grasp all this. But this can give an idea of how > little I know and thus what help might be suitable to offer with respect > to my X problems. > > Hopefully, you won't say "go back to Windows, you dummy!" :) > > Thanks, James > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
