if you find anything out forward it off to me, i'll do the same for you...take care and keep at it..
--james On Sun, 14 Oct 2001 10:13:44 -0400 Cary Pembleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >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 > -------------------------------------------------- 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
