On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 05:26:51PM -0500, Ian P. Thomas Ipt wrote:
> 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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After seeing that I had neglected to add any pty's to my kernel config
file, I added them back in, recompiled, and bam! Blackbox is running
nicely at 1024x768 at depth 24. Adding the correct info from xvidtune has
the screen centered. xterm and rxvt work flawlessly.
Viva la Opensource
Ian
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