On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 18:12 +1300, Rob Wood wrote: > > Ah! there we are: XF86_VGA16 and the ( symbolic ) link called X, which > > points > > to it are both supposed to be in the directory /usr/X11R6/bin > > which in turn is supposed to be in the PATH. > > > > -- > > Sincerely etc., > > Christopher Sawtell >
Woodsey, I have been watching your posts with some interest. You are persistent and obviously not silly, you have been able to follow instructions and learn from your experiences. You are a pleasure to have on the list. However I think this futzing around with a minor outdated and tiny distro on outdated hardware is wasting a lot of your time. my recommendations: go buy a decent pc, by which I mean something cheap and second hand like a p 3 800 MHz with 256 M Ram ( I say that because I am picking that the fact you are playing with a 486 means you aren't flush with discretionary cash). Then get a real distro, i recommend suse or ubuntu. then use the 486 for something it will do with ease - running an ipcop gateway/router for your home lan :-) Not that I disapprove of setting up linuix on old hardware, I do it myself from time to time, but I gave up on 486's some time ago (I did get small linux going on a 386sx25 laptop once). > Yes that was the problem, brilliant! Startx now seems to start. I feel that > great progress has been made and I am very close to a working setup. > > Startx starts with "Configured drivers" then lists some drivers. The grey > background with a large X cursor then appears for about a second, then a > long list of different video modes. I am familiar with the background and X > cursor from messing with Red Hat 6.0 etc. some time ago. > > Right at the end, I get the message: > > "Error opening security policy file > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy > Warning: /dev/mouse unable to get status of mouse fd (not a typewriter) > > Waiting for X server to shut down" > > Then back to the prompt. The directory: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/ is not > present and hence neither is the file SecurityPolicy. I could create the > directory but where would the file come from. I re-ran tar on the archives > and updated the database but no joy. This may be the only problem left now!! > > Cheers - Woodsey > > > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
