On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 10:18:51PM -0500, Andy Goth wrote: > On Sunday, July 13, 2003 3:14 pm, Geoff Petzold wrote: > > I have stumbled onto something thsat is interesting... if i move the file > > into my /etc/X11/ directory and rename it as XF86Config-4 then everything > > works fine (ie both screens work the way i thought they would. Thats wierd > > how that when i typed X -xf86config /root/<blah> it wouldnt work... but if ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > i move it into /etc/X11/ it works... does anyone know why that is?? > > Shrug. That's weird.
I don't think that's the proper command line syntax, is it, Andy? [ looks ] Oh, I'm wrong. It *does* say, though, that only root can use absolute pathnames; Geoff; are you running as root? Is your X server binary, for some odd reason, accidentally setUID to something else, perhaps? > > It works except that it is two SEPERATE desktops... i can move the mouse > > from one to annother but not any windows. If i put the Option "Xinerama" > > into the Xf86Config file my xserver crashes and i have to reset my > > computer.... so right now i can get the two monitors up and running but > > with two seperate desktops... and i want to know how i can set them up so > > it is one desktop accross two monitors... > > Xinerama problem? > > Why do you have to reset your computer? Do you get a black or garbled > display? Do Num Lock and Caps Lock fail to respond? > > Try crashing X again and then ping your computer from a different host. If > you get a response, then your computer isn't really halted. Then try > telnetting in. See if you can bring down X through the remote shell (first > use kill, and then if that doesn't work, kill -9). Also you might want to > try strace or gdb to see what XFree86 is up to. top can tell you if X is > caught in an infinite loop or similar (~100% CPU time). And try, also, Ctrl-Alt-F1, to see if you can switch back to a text console. If so, it's only X that's hung. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the Technical Staff Baylink RFC 2100 The Suncoast Freenet The Things I Think Tampa Bay, Florida http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 OS X: Because making Unix user-friendly was easier than debugging Windows -- Simon Slavin, on a.f.c _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86