On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, J. Michael Morse wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, J. Michael Morse wrote: > > > I have used YaST, XF86SETUP and XF86CONFIG to try and configure my > > > x-windows on Suse Linux. Are there other programs out there? I've I have > > > tried these three but when I try to run startx, I get an error message. > > what version of XF86 do you have installed? (try this command to see what > > you have installed) > I have XFree86 3.3.4. I finally STARTX to work, but I didn't have my monitor > configured correctly. It is capable of hi res so I tried to change the > settings. > When I ran YaST again, it corrupted whatever file it created. Now, STARTX > doesn't work again. If I could find out where/what directory this file is > stored in, > can I delete it and start again?
First, your version of XF86 is *way* out of date. It would probably pay you greatly to update the whole thing. However, to answer your direct question: how to find the file "XF86Config" [morse]$ find /etc -iname "XF86Config" -print | more This command tells the find command to start looking in the directory /etc and search through it and all sub-directories beneath it for a file that matches "XF86Config" irrespective of case and to print out the result. It then pipes that output into the "more" command for easy display in case there is a lot of output (there shouldn't be!). It should locate the file in /etc/X11/ but who knows. However, when you talk about being able to remove this file and re-run the configuration tools I think that you may be barking up the wrong tree. Here's why: many of the XF86 configuration tools are intended to be run from a text-mode console by root. You shouldn't need to be "in" X in order to configure it. Also most of them overwrite the exisiting config files when you run them so you shouldn't need to be deleting the ones that don't work for you. I don't run SuSE, so I can't help you with the YaST part of your question, but I would suggest that you do a [morse]$ man YaST and see what it says. Good luck (and you really should think about updating XF86!) -Oisin _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
