On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 08:09:52PM -0500, Michael L Ried wrote: > I cannot start up X windows after using the startx command. It looks > like X windows is going to start but then it stops soon after starting > up. I am not sure if there is some place to look for error messages. I > assume that I didn't entered something incorrectly when I ran XF86Config > but I am not sure what it is. What should I do now?
Stop any X display managers you may be running (eg: xdm, gdm, wdm)
with:
$ /etc/init.d/<x-display-manager> stop
Lauch X with the first of the following that works:
$ startx -- 1>startx.log 2>&1
$ xinit 1>xinit.log 2>&1
$ X 1>X.log 2>&1
...and report any error messages or output to the list.
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