Newbe Question - Setting up X11
I new to Linux and I'm trying to setup X Windows. I loaded all the packages. When I run startx I get the following message: X: exec of /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_NONE failed Any idea what I've done wrong? Any help would be appreciated. David Robison -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Newbe Question - Setting up X11
I new to Linux and I'm trying to setup X Windows. I loaded all the packages. When I run startx I get the following message: X: exec of /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_NONE failed Any idea what I've done wrong? Any help would be appreciated. You should install one of the xserver-* packages which match your video card. (most probably xserver-svga) and respond yes to making it default X server. If console configuration wouldn't work (i.e. startx gives some errors), install xserver-vga16 package (make sure to answer no on the question as to whether make it default X server) and then run XF86Setup. This is a wonderful graphic configuration utility. Good luck. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Newbe Question - Setting up X11
David R. Robison wrote: I new to Linux and I'm trying to setup X Windows. I loaded all the packages. When I run startx I get the following message: X: exec of /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_NONE failed Any idea what I've done wrong? Any help would be appreciated. David Robison XF86_NONE indicates you haven't selected a default X server. The server you use depends on your video hardware; look at the xserver-* packages (xserver-svga is probably the most common). When you install a server it will ask if you want to make it the default server. If you say yes then XF86_NONE will be removed. -- Ed -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Newbe Question - Setting up X11
On Tue, Jul 07, 1998 at 01:16:07AM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: David R. Robison wrote: X: exec of /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_NONE failed Any idea what I've done wrong? Any help would be appreciated. XF86_NONE indicates you haven't selected a default X server. The server you use depends on your video hardware; look at the xserver-* packages (xserver-svga is probably the most common). When you install a server it will ask if you want to make it the default server. If you say yes then XF86_NONE will be removed. Well, I seem to experience a problem like the one David describes, and it has to do with the configuration scripts for xserver-vga16 xserver-svga (maybe others, but that two are the ones I install the most), not respecting the default answer. I mean, they ask you something like: Do you want to make this the default X server [y]: And if you just press enter accepting the default answer, there is no action taken, if you press y and then enter it does set this X server as the default. This happends in new installs of X (where there is no xserver already configured), and when you have an X server configured and want to change it (it does not get changed by the default answer, you must key in y). I think this should be filled in a bug against the mentioned xservers, but I don't know how to do it, sorry, maybe someone of you know how and will do it. Also, I have not investigated how to fill a bug just to report this, because I figured out this should be easyly noted by everyone and that by this time someone had already filled the bug report. As to answer David's question, simpler thing to do is to uninstall and then reinstall the xserver and this time typing y enter when it ask you if you want it to be the default X server. See you Roberto Ruiz -- LINUX: the FREE 32 bit OS for [3456]86 PC's available NOW! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
