Chris, and Don and anyone else who has f**ked with, or is tempted to f**k with Tony's X configuration: THAT WAS NOT THE PROBLEM!!
Tony had a problem where his machine would boot to X dependent on whether certain network cards had IP connectivity on boot. If we plugged both cards into a dhcp server then it would boot into X, if not it would freeze up/hang at the point of switching to X. Quite likely some service that ran just before X was taking forever to time out. I doubt that reconfiguring X was ever going to solve it and it looks Don like your attempts have screwed the X configuration, as he now has a completely different error. On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 22:53:28 +1300 Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 15 February 2006 19:05, Rik Tindall wrote: > > > Still thinking M$ eh, Rik? > > > > NO. Time-use: quickest route to GO. > Absolutely _NOT_! > The quickest way to set up any Linux component is to just set it up, not to > re-install the whole shooting match. > > In the case of the X server it is self configuring so it's a piece of cake. > Log in as root without starting the X-11 server. Put nox on the boot up > line as an option. You can edit the line if you are using Grub. > > From a Virtual Terminal ( i.e. without the X server running ) running as > root simply say:- > > # X -configure > > This will write a sample configure file to the /root directory, and tell > you how to start X using the new config file's name. To test the server, > run 'X -config /root/xorg.conf.new' > > So do as you are told: > > # X -config /root/xorg.conf.new > > The X server will start and show the stippled grey background, or crash > with a very relevant message to the screen and a full log > in /var/log/Xorg.0.log > > Some distributions put a somewhat documented example file > in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.example > > For the whole story consult the manual pages. > > $ man 5 xorg.conf > $ man X > > For nicely printed very comprehensive manual pages:- > > $ man -t X > X.ps > $ gv X.ps > $ man 5 -t xorg.conf > xorg.conf.ps > $ gv xorg.conf.ps > > For the total story consult the X-11 server's web site home page and wiki. > > http://www.x.org/ > http://wiki.x.org/wiki/ > > For this particular problem the log file is telling the truth. > Check out the config file section, and make sure the Monitor section is > correct. > > Section "Screen" > Device "Card0" > Monitor "Monitor0" > Identifier "Screen0" > > -- > CS
