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
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