[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> somewhere in xf86config it should tell you it sees a place where it
> can make a link to the X server and ask if you want it to make a
> link. If you don't tell it yes, it won't.
Yes, I always tell it to make that link.
> No. XF86Config lives in /etc/XF86Config, or <xroot>/lib/X11/XF86Config.
> What startx expects is that etc/X11/X will be an executable program that
> will be the X server.
Ok. I just thought that it looked for a config file called X and didn't
find it.
> If xf86config doesn't offer to make a link to the X server, or you can't
> bear to go through xf86config again, make the link yourself. First,
> make sure you have installed the VGA16 server. If not, that could be
> why nothing has worked so far. I have lost track of your distro. If it
> is an incarnation of Red Hat, that should be the XFree86-VGA16
> rpm. Install it. :-)
>
Well, it is not a problem for me to execute xf86config again and again.
Whenever I do that, I get a link pointed to X having a name like
/etc/X11R6/bin/X11/XF86_VGA (or XF86_SVGA or something similar, not
quite sure at the moment, regarding what server I chose during
xf86config). Btw, how to be sure if I have video server(s) installed or
not? Is there any possibility that RH 6.1 haven't installed server(s)
after its setup did not recognized graphic card (or, even, if graphic
card is not supported at all)? On this one system where graphic card has
been detected properly, I suppose that video server(s) was(were)
installed by default. I am not used to rpm anything from a CD in text
mode.
> Now I will link the VGA16 server to /etc/X11/X and use it to send this
> letter. Hmm, /etc/X11/X is an odd place to run the X server from. Is
> /etc/X11 in the PATH? it isn't in mine, but this is Slackware.
> Don't worry about the owner of these files being named mfwic. That is
> what I choose to name user 0, normally named root.
>
> Script started on Tue Jun 6 02:08:35 2000
> witsend:~# ls -l /usr/X11/bin/XF86_VGA16
> -rws--s--x 1 mfwic root 2027394 Jun 28 1998
> /usr/X11/bin/XF86_VGA16
> witsend:~# rm -f /etc/X11/X
> witsend:~# ln -s /usr/X11/bin/XF86_VGA16 /etc/X11/X
> witsend:~# ls -l /etc/X11/X
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 mfwic root 23 Jun 6 02:24 /etc/X11/X ->
> /usr/X11/bin/XF86_VGA16
> witsend:~# echo $PATH
>
>/usr/local/bien:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/openwin/bin:/usr/games:.
> witsend:~# ln -s /etc/X11/X /usr/local/bin/X
> witsend:~# ls -l /usr/local/bin/X
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 mfwic root 10 Jun 6 02:29 /usr/local/bin/X
> -> /etc/X11/X
> witsend:~# exit
> exit
>
> Script done on Tue Jun 6 02:30:21 2000
Yep, I did the same (or adopt to my situation). It placed some things in
the PATH but I still haven't got anything but errors that I reported
earlier. Let me know more details about installing some 'generic' VGA
and SVGA servers that I could probe. How to install missing thing(s)
from a CD after the main installation is finished? I passed thru the
complete installation process several times (I made it in 'workstation'
and 'custom' way and it always reported that a graphic card was not
detected, or not able to detect and it was 'returning to a XF86_VGA16'
or something like that - I am not sure now).
Misko
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