I guess I was trying to run a corrupted binary. I finally figured out how to recompile from source, 4th of 6 cdroms in Debian set; and now gnome comes up. Monitor is not as big as virtual screen. Easy fix?
dave On Mon, 1 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 00-12-30 22:08:36 EST, you write: > > << apt-get reports xserver-common is already the newest version. > > > > Well, the newest version doesn't work. On startx, I get the errno=111 > > error message; and then after that > > > > xinit: No such process (errno3): server error > > You've tried to configure your server first with, say, XF86Setup (for > XFree86 v3, not sure for v4)? > > > Really, newbie is stuck, Stuck, STUCK. TiA for clues. > > > > dave > > > > PS: I have tried to get a more verbose error message, but maybe I don't > > know how to do it right. > > startx -- 2>&1 | tee startx.log > > ...copy this to your Legacy MS Windows system somehow (network or > msdos formatted floppy), and include it in your AOL (ugh! ;-) mail > message. > >> > ? Progress? > > startx still doesn't produce much output, but I find XF86_W32 in usr/bin > folder. Lots of output. Can't copy to you yet, because <mount -t msdos > /dev/fd0 /floppy) says device is not a valid block device. Good grief. > That's the only way I can think to bring it over to AOL. Anyway, > log complains about my Hsync rate and deletes all modes. I found > the XF86Config file in usr/X11R6/lib/X11/ and tried to edit it with > vi. Failed. :i used to let me insert text (I thought), but not today for > some reason. > > Will get rid of AOL when I complete my migration to Linux in the next > few ?days, ??weeks, ???months, ????years. I've already been trying > a long time. > > Happy New Year, and thanks for your help. > > dave >
