On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 03:05:36PM -0500, Ian P. Thomas Ipt wrote:
> After having just installed my ATI Xpert 2000 AGP card, I was pleased
> to see the screen for blackbox come up. The resolution and color depth
> were superb. However, I'm unable to execute certain commands, rxvt and
> xterm, because I have no .Xauthority file in my home directory. How do you
> create one of these files?
> I am starting X from the console using startx. After redirecting the
> error output to a file, I found this message;
>
> rxvt: can't open psuedo-tty
> rxvt: aborting
> cat: /home/ipt//.Xauthority: no such file or directory
>
> The command xauth looks promising as a way to create this file, but I
> can't remember having to do this in the past. I have just upgraded to
> 4.1.0 as suggested. I did so in the following manner;
>
> download binaries:
> Xinstall.sh extract Xbin Xlib Xman Xdoc Xfnts Xfenc Xetc Xvar Xserv Xmod
> Xvbf Xprog Xfsrv Xnest Xprt Xf100 Xfscl Xhtml
>
> install using:
> sh Xinstall.sh
>
> ran XFree86 -configure
> note: This ran flawlessly :)
>
> I installed over top of my old XFree86 Version 3.3.6 installation as
> instructed by the Installation document. When asked if I wanted to
> overwrite existing configuration files I chose no.
I reinstalled Version 4.1.0, this time letting the install overwrite
all the previous configuration files. I hadn't changed any of them anyway.
Once again I was not able to get an xterm or rxvt to come up.
After getting xdm to come up on boot, I was able to generate an
.Xauthority file as well as an .ICEauthority file. I, however, can still
not bring up an xterm or an rxvt window. The error I get is as follows
rxvt: can't open pseudo-tty
I really don't know what to try next. I had at least a minimal X
running using Version 3.3.6. I could execute xterms with that Version.
Ian
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