I could really use some installation assistance with XFree86 4.1.0 as well. When you run the script provided for the glibc you have chosen it asks far more questions than I have answers for and their documentation stinks!
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of jamesMC Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2001 4:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Newbie]startx problems I have a redhat 7.1 installation. I was recently installing ogle 8.0, dvd player for linux, which I greatly recommend. Anyways, I was running XFree86 version 4.03 and had to upgrade 4.10 because of its Xv capabilities. That would make my ogle player run smoother and give me fullscreen mode. Anyways, in the past I wouldn't start up X when starting my computer, I would manually startx and that would run gnome sawfish, sometimes when I am compiling I don't like running X just to save resources. So I decided to use the Xinstall.sh script when installing 4.10 as opposed to using the patches. Well everything went fine running the script, I thought I picked the right options. Now when I try to startx it brings up some primitive X session w/ no background and old looking terminal windows. So I reran the script w/ some different options thinking I knew where I went wrong, now it started up gnome but w/ no fonts. All I got was a bunch of weird square boxes where the words used to be. The only way that works for me know is to log in as root, and run /etc/X11/prefdm which brings up some log on manager. Then I can log in as my regular user. Does anyone know of a way to run 4.1 but the way I used to. Which is to just to start up w/o any X windows running, and when I wanted to go into gnome I could just startx. I think the problem lies in that 4.10 installs in different directories as my original installation. Someone let me know if this is right or if you have had similiar problems any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for the long email, I just wanted to explain myself fully. Thanks again and take care. --james in NY -------------------------------------------------- Totally Amazing Search Results - Just C4 Yourself! http://www.C4.com - Total Search Technology _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
