On Sun, 25 Aug 2002, guy keren wrote: > > On Sun, 25 Aug 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > when i 'startx' i get a black screen and sometimes (when > > running startx > > again) i get to see the desktop for a variable amount of time > > (0.5 seconds to 3 secs aprox.) > > which program did you try to configure X with? there are several such > programs - one of them might work. not sure which comes with mandrake - > you should have mandrake's own X config utility (drakex?), or > Xconfigurator (is it redhat specific?) or xf86setup, or....
XF86Setup came with XFree 3. xf86cfg comes wth XFree 4 . I recall XF86Setup as somewhat useful, although lacking almost any form of auto detection. xf86cfg tries to use the autodetection capabilities of xfree. Actually, it even worked for me once. But most of the times it simply failed, and crashed. > > also - you get lots of messages when you run X, on the console from which > you ran 'startx'. can you copy them _all_ into a file, and send them over? > specifically the last few might tell exactly what the problem is - or they > might not ;) Agree here. Have a look and see if it makes sense. A 'Missing core pointer' is a misconfigured mouse. And 'Missing font "fixed"' means that something is problematic with the fonts configuration (normally it means that all the fonts are missing, not only the one called 'fixed') Have a look at the messages slightly above the last message to see some more details about the problem. -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
