n a had this to say on 05/08/2006 03:22 AM: > I don't know if it's just been a long day or if I'm retarded, but I > put Debian Sarge and X on two different laptops (a dell inspiron 4000 > and a Toshiba Protege 320CT) and xterm doesn't work on either of them > because "DISPLAY is not set". X boots up fine but I can't get it to > _do_ anything without the xterm... Google gets me some other people's > problem's with ssh and x, and something to do with X and sudo that I > can't quite make out... > > Any bright ideas as to what I'm doing wrong or what to look for? Am I > overlooking something glaringly simple? (sorry I'm venting > away-from-laptop at the moment so I can't recall any useful contents > of the rc/conf files...) > starting with simple: X server is running? Does X start automatically on bootup?
I assume you can get to a bash shell... if you type 'export', do you see anything like: declare -x DISPLAY=":0.0" declare -x TERM="xterm" if not, type 'export DISPLAY=:0.0' you mention SSH and X, are you running this through SSH, or on the local machine? -- ^X^C q quit :q ^C end x exit ZZ ^D ^Z ^K^B ? help _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
