Sounds like your symbolic link for X isn't pointing to a valid server. Try this:
Go to the /ur/X11R6/bin directory type: ln -s /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_VGA16 X That will set your symbolic link for X to point to the VGA16 server. Hope this helps. --thanks to Steve Mayer for helping me solve this problem a few days ago. Give credit where it's due. Brian Morgan David Miner wrote: > I recently installed DEBIAN Linux and downloaded some packages. > My problem is when I try to start X it wont start and I get this message > back. > > Fatal server error: > No valid modes found. > _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 > giving up. > xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to xserver > xinit: No such process (errno 3): server error. > > I'm running the "VGA16" server and ran XF86Setup as "root". > > The contents of /etc/X11/Xserver are > /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_VGA16 > Console > << EOF >> > > The computer is an older COMPAQ 486 DX 50 here at work that I thought I > would test LINUX on. I believe the video card is a Cirrus Logic with .5 meg > video ram (it is built into the motherboard), however I selected unsupported > VGA just to be safe. I used 640x480 for monitor resolution "standard VGA" > in the XF86Setup. XF86Setup seems to run fine but after saving to > XF86Config and exiting "startx" returns the above error. > > Any help would be appreciated. > > Dave > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
