On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 17:11, rob wrote: > Thanks to Chris, Ross, Steve and Nick. > > I still haven't managed to locate an X log after several attempts. Oh well, I suppose it being written to /dev/null or something. Very helpfulNOT I must say.
> After running xf86config again and adjusting the horizontal and vertical > frequencies, if I move the mouse about whilst doing startx, the > background and cursor will stay on screen. There is a big white > rectangle in the upper left hand corner (about 1/3 of the screen) with > nothing in it. Wonderful news. That means that you have the simplest window manager ther is going. It's called TWM - short for The Window Manager - Original Thinkers! > If I click around in it enough, I eventually get a bash$ prompt. > > This enabled me to reboot or shutdown. You can also run any other X-11 or terminal program now. > This has to be considered something of a success under the > circumstances. I haven't tried the mode line generator yet. (I have to > figure out what it is first). It is a calculator for the modelines in the XF86Config file. This is the section of the RUTE book which deals with setting up an X-11 Windowing server.:- http://berty.dyndns.org/rute/node46.html#SECTION004663000000000000000 I'm sorry I forgot I had it available. There is a pink coloured panel with sample modelines in it in the screen below the one brought up by the link above. > Nick, I am not sure what version of X this is but Chris says it is old. Try the command:- /usr/X11R6/bin/X -version That will probably tell you. It would be interesting to know what you have there. > Apparently it is also chopped down to the minimum and buggy. I think > this is probably a reasonable description. True. If you want to go further with this machine I'd suggest that you at least get an up to date(ish) X-11 server installed. X has been improved by orders of magnitude in recent years. Like it goes _much_ quicker than it used to. > Thanks again for all your patience and great help. N.P. > PS To avoid household friction I'm afraid I'm going to have to make > Windows the default OS I hate posting this to you guys but all I get > from Jill is "Damn its gone into GRUB again, I don't want GRUB I want > Windows" (The distro is actually Ubuntu!) That's understandable. All you have to do now is to wait for a few months when the Windows side will be stuffed full of spy-ware, viruses, and all sorts of sordid trash. Windows will be going like an alcoholic snail. MSWord will have crashed for the umpteenth time and she will have lost a morning's work. Don't worry, at that point she'll be squeaking for the safety and security offered by Linux. :-) What does she do with Windows anyway? -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell
