If you have RH 7.x /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 is used for X 4.x.x. If the installation program decided that X 3.3.6 was better for you then /etc/X11/XF86Config is used... You can obviously overwrite those defaults. man XFree86 will tell you the sequence in which X searches for its configuration file... Lionel --- Ted Spradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > I am running a Trident 9680 video card..with a packaged RedHat 7.0 > > however when i type startX i get > > > > config error: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11XF86Config :220 > > section Device > > Monitor Section Keyword expected > > I thought I saw a note in the XF86Config man page that line numbers in > error messages were off by one, but I couldn't find it just now. In any > case, the problem is certainly somewhere between lines 210 and 230, > shouldn't be too hard to find. > > > xinit connection refuse (erron 111) > > unable to connect to X server > > > > Xinit no such process (erron 3) server error > > Of course the rest of this is just cascade from the syntax error. > > Are you sure you mean to use the XF86Config that's in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 > (I'm assuming that the missing slash between X11 and XF86Config is a > transcription error)? Doesn't RedHat move the *real* XF86Config (the > one that's meant to be used) to somewhere under /etc ? Perhaps startx > (all lower case, normally) doesn't specify that like it should? > > -- > Remember, more computing power was thrown away last week than existed in > the world in 1982. -- http://www.tom.womack.net/computing/prices.html > _______________________________________________ > Newbie mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
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