On Monday, 27 Jan 2003, Marek Denis wrote:
<snip>
> Once I have done it I type
>
> # XFree86 -configure
> #XFree86 -xf86config /root/XFree86configure.new
>
> Test is done, and the grey screen with moving coursor appears.
>
> So, I am going to edit my config
>
> vi /root/XF86Config
>
> I added some lines:
<snip>
>
> Besides I typed in a prompt:
>
> echo "exec startkde" > ~/.xinitrc
>
> Then I rebooted and typed
>
> startx
>
> And server crashed, below there is my log:
>
<snip>
> (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
> (==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Mon Jan 27
> 13:15:08 2003
>
> (EE) Unable to locate/open config file
>
>
> (EE) Error from xf86HandleConfigFile()
>
>
> Fatal server error:
> no screens found
<snip>
>
> WHAT's UP ????????????????
Your XF86Config is still in "/root/XFree86configure.new" or
"/root/XF86Config", or whatever you ended up calling it.
According to the manual page "XF86Config-4(5x)" on my system:
|| XFree86 uses a configuration file called XF86Config for
|| its initial setup. This configuration file is searched
|| for in the following places when the server is started as
|| a normal user:
||
|| /etc/X11/<cmdline>
|| /usr/X11R6/etc/X11/<cmdline>
|| /etc/X11/$XF86CONFIG
|| /usr/X11R6/etc/X11/$XF86CONFIG
|| /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
|| /etc/X11/XF86Config
|| /etc/XF86Config
|| /usr/X11R6/etc/X11/XF86Config.<hostname>
|| /usr/X11R6/etc/X11/XF86Config-4
|| /usr/X11R6/etc/X11/XF86Config
|| /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config.<hostname>
|| /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config-4
|| /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config
||
|| where <cmdline> is a relative path (with no ".." compo
|| nents) specified with the -xf86config command line option,
|| $XF86CONFIG is the relative path (with no ".." components)
|| specified by that environment variable, and <hostname> is
|| the machine's hostname as reported by gethostname(3).
||
|| When the X server is started by the "root" user, the con
|| fig file search locations are as follows:
||
|| <cmdline>
|| /etc/X11/<cmdline>
|| /usr/X11R6/etc/X11/<cmdline>
|| $XF86CONFIG
|| /etc/X11/$XF86CONFIG
|| /usr/X11R6/etc/X11/$XF86CONFIG
|| $HOME/XF86Config
|| /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
|| /etc/X11/XF86Config
|| /etc/XF86Config
|| /usr/X11R6/etc/X11/XF86Config.<hostname>
|| /usr/X11R6/etc/X11/XF86Config-4
|| /usr/X11R6/etc/X11/XF86Config
|| /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config.<hostname>
|| /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config-4
|| /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config
Copy or move your XF86Config to the appropriate location.
Jimmy
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