On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 10:24, Rob Wood wrote: > Hi Chris, > Well good and bad news. With the downloaded SecurityPolicy file in place > startx starts up and the background stays on screen for about 2 seconds now > (100% improvement). There is no error message at the end of the run > regarding the SecurityPolicy > file so the file is clearly being found OK and the script is being read but > at the end of each line from 50-88 the response is > "Line XX of /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/SecurityPolicy invalid ignoring" Not surprising really, It's a SecurityPolicy file from a modern X-11 server being used on an antique one. Delete the lines it is moaning about.
> I don't know about lines 1-49 but I would guess its the same. No, No news is good news on Unix - always. > I re-downloaded the file and replaced it but the results are the same. > > I was unable to find a log file created by X-11 server. Strange to say the least! > In /var/log there is "syslog" which has no information about X-Free. > > Any ideas? - Woodsey Let's try and find it then. Unless I'm very much mistaken it must be somewhere. Try these two commands which might take a few minutes on an older machine, please be patient:- updatedb locate X | grep "\.log" It's important to remember that you are playing around with a very old Linux distribution which is using a similarly old X-11 server. These particular lessons you are learning about it, while interesting, are no longer particularly relevant to the situation today. From that point of view Nick is correct. I suspect that your config file for the X-11 server is not yet quite correct. Until version 4 of the X-11 server it was always an iterative process. Have you tried to run the xf86config tool which sets up the XF86Config file? It asks you a Gazillion erudite questions about your video card and monitor and then writes out an XF86Free.conf file which might just work correctly. ( They usually didn't and needed tweaking up by hand ) You might also find a mode line calculator to be useful. This one seems to work pretty well:- http://delenn.tky.hut.fi/amlc/ It's but one of many. Google will find them. -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell
