%% jennyw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: j> By the way, my system apparently has no startx.
It sounds to me like your system is missing some very important packages. There's no way you should be missing startx! That's a fundamental script and it's in xbase-clients, which pretty much every X installation should have. It should be in /usr/X11R6/bin (or /usr/bin/X11, which should be a symlink to the former). If it's not there, you need to do something like: # apt-get install xbase-clients Personally I would disable GDM and use startx until you get your X environment working; it's much simpler to stop/restart from the console rather than through a display manager. j> I start X using /etc/init.d/gdm start. The screen blinks for a j> bit, then it stops, then it blinks for a bit more, then it stops, j> then it does it again. I assume it's trying the three video modes j> (640x480, 800x600 and 1024x768) that I selected, and is finding j> that none of them works. My first suspicion is you have a font problem. The font handling in Woody is very different than in Potato, and in my experience it's not entirely robust yet: I've had installs screw up my font lists for me. The X server must find the "fixed" font or it won't start at all. The X server will actually print lots of very helpful errors (albeit sometimes somewhat arcane). If you're using GDM, go look in the /var/log directory for a file like XFree86.0.log and see what errors are shown there. startx will just spew them to the screen; you can redirect them to a log like this: $ startx &> error.log If you see errors in there about fonts, you should check your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file; if you don't understand what's going on there post it for us, at least the FontPath lines. In any event, if you post the errors you find in your X log file someone may be able to provide more help. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> HASMAT--HA Software Mthds & Tools "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These are my opinions---Nortel Networks takes no responsibility for them.
