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
>
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