I'm a bit confused about what you are doing as regards X installation. You
say "I have run XF86Config and that didn't help." I'm not surprised, since
XF86Config is a text configuration file read by the X server when it runs,
not an executable.
There is xf86config (note the different capitalization; case counts in
Unix/Linux), a text-based program that guides you through X configuration,
creating for you the file /etc/XF86Config .
There is XF86Setup, a GUI-based program that uses the VGA16 X server to
guide you through configuration. I've never liked it and don't use it.
There may be yet other setup/config programs included with RH6, but I'd be
surprised if there is one called XF86Config .
To answer one of your questions directly, I've used X for years, on my
Slackware systems, never (after the first time) having any real difficulty
getting it running by way of xf86config . So please believe me that it
(often) works just fine. I'm sure the others on this list who *answer*
questions about X also have X running just fine.
I don't know what you mean when you say "I have always been able to run
startx and am not intending to mess with that." Since this is the normal way
to start the X server, why are you messing around with configuration
programs if you already have X working? If you don't have X working, then
what *does* this sentence mean?
Anyway, assuming you do not yet have X running, I'd suggest you:
a. get it configured by way of xf86config
b. run it using startx
c. open an xterm window
d. try to run wine from it. (I'm really in the dark about this last part,
since I've never tried to install or run wine.)
PS - The custom on this list is to post in standard text, not in html.
Please turn off the "feature" of your mail software that appends an html
copy of your message.
At 01:15 PM 7/14/99 -0700, Ken Wilson wrote [in part]:
>I'm trying to get X running so I can run Wine (windows emulator)
>
>I have run XF86Config and that didn't help. I can never get past the gray
>screen. It just sits there forever until I type ctrl-alt-pagedown.
>
>I see a message at the end of the XF86Config program that says I can now
>run 'startx' so I'm starting to get confused here. I have always been able
>to run startx and am not intending to mess with that.
>
>I keep reading of people who have problems with X but never read of any who
>are successful. Have any of you got X to work? How about WINE?
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