Hello folks. I'm sorry to post this question, as I feel it may have been addressed before, but there's no search facility on the mail archive... Apologies again.
The story is, I built my system from source - www.linuxfromscratch.org - and it's splendid. I have everything I need under console, and I'm quite happy with the console, but I am now in a situation where I need X on the machine; I have to demo linux to people from the Ministry of Communications; I'm trying to get them to begin switching. Anyhow, that's beside the point. Having built the whole system from source, naturally I was morally obliged to build X from source too, and all went fine until, after 'make world && make install && make install.man && ldconfig' , and after configuring X, I run startx and get the following message: // Begin Snippet hostname: Host name lookup failure XFree86 Version 4.2.0 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600) Release Date: 18 January 2002 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (See http://www.XFree86.Org/) Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.10 i686 [ELF] Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Wed Mar 20 23:03:19 2002 (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config" Fatal server error: AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0 When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send the full server output, not just the last messages. This can be found in the log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log". Please report problems to [EMAIL PROTECTED] XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0" after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining. // end Snippet xf86cfg works fine; this means I have basic X functionality. The card I have is a Savage4 Pro with 8 Mb of memory, though I suspect that this is irrelevant to the problem. None of the Savage drivers make this problem go away. Besides, haphazardly trying out other servers on hunches strikes me as a decidedly unelegant method of approaching problem-solving. Anyone clued-in enough to help me out here? Apologies again if this has already been answered. Youssef _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
