On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Greg Julius wrote: > I bought this system 12/24 and have never had X work properly. Yes, I am a > bit (understatement) frustrated. I am sorry if it appears to be
I only think I saw it once -- but I didn't use to be on the xfree86 list (I was on xperts). > place. I guess its just my frustration getting out of hand (someone said > 30% of learning Linux is learning new ways to cuss). ;) Tsk, tsk. Kids these days. You are *sooo* lucky. We had to program by moving magnets back and forth over the floppy disk. > > > I have put in the 4.2.20 kernel - just fine now. I installed the XFree86 > > Yes, kernel, but I goofed with the # it is 2.4.20. Sorry, The first > instructions I received indicated I needed the 2.4.20 kernel so I started > down that line. See http://www.xfree86.org/~dawes/845driver.html . Thanks for the clarification. I'll look at that in a minute. > >what is the contents of your .xinitrc file? Mine just says: > >exec gnome-session > > I don't have an .xinitrc file. (at least ' find . | grep xinitrc ' from / > doesn't find it) Then you should perhaps have one. > I do have a /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc file and it has a lot of stuff in > it. it does end with: > # start some nice programs > > twm & > xclock -geometry ... & > xterm -geometry ... & > xterm -geometry ... & > exec xterm -geometry .... -name login > > Which I guess is the window manager. What should I have and where should I > have it? Yes. startx is a script that loads the X server and then the xinitc file(s). My configuration scripts look different from yours (I'm running Debian 3.0). /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc contains: #!/bin/sh # $Xorg: xinitrc.cpp,v 1.3 2000/08/17 19:54:30 cpqbld Exp $ # /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc # # global xinitrc file, used by all X sessions started by xinit (startx) # invoke global X session script . /etc/X11/Xsession /etc/X11/Xsession is a script that tries to load a session that was saved from the last time the X server was run -- I'm not even sure it's used in my case because I also have a .xinitrc in my home directory that contains the exec gnome-session line I wrote earlier. > >No, you shouldn't need to. You don't describe above that you need to. > >Can you say more about this? > > (Curses for thirty minutes before realizing you must have meant a > description of what happens, not how I feel :) Sorry. <description snipped - will look at it> > If I look at the log, I don't get any EE messages, and only (WW) VESA(0): > Bad V_Bios checksum (I seem to get it twice however). Lots of -- ** II > and == stuff. Aha! That's interesting, don't you think? Can you send the whole log? (as attachment or inline) There might be yet another subtle hint in there somewhere. > Well, that's what happens. Any Ideas, hints, pointers, things to try? I think you can piece the gnome environment back together now... I'll take a look at the rest. -Peter _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
