On Wednesday, July 16, 2003 2:37 am, rijovm wrote: > Andy Goth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> cannot find the display is the error when configure xconfig with my > >> original settings. > > > >Your configuration and log file(s) look fine. It sounds like you have a > >problem with your DISPLAY variable and/or your X authentication. > > > >Do you get error messages like "xterm Xt error: Can't open display:"? > > > >What do you type or do to get the error? > > When I install xconfig at the prompt(dos) textmodus
That's not DOS. :^) MS-DOS is a different operating system altogether, and it's not really worth anyone's time except as a curiosity. What's xconfig? Is it a package that comes with your distribution? What distribution would that be? Red Hat, Slackware, Debian, etc. are GNU/Linux distributions. By "install" do you mean "start"? > and fill in everything > correctly from my books that go with my monitor and my videocard. Frequency ranges and such? > then I get errors like that . When exactly does the error come up? > How can i make a screen dump in linux in the text mode do you no the > right commands. You can use "script" to track everything you type and everything that is displayed (in text). When you're done making the script, type "exit". The result will be in a file called "typescript". Upload it somewhere or post it to the list if it is not too large. > By the way what do they mean by virtual sreens. A virtual screen, to X, is where you have a larger display area than your monitor can show at one time. You use the mouse to scroll around by moving the pointer to the edges of the displayed area. It's pretty annoying, so don't use it if you can avoid it. You reminded me of something else that's probably worth mentioning: The Linux console lets you have multiple virtual consoles that you can flip through using Alt+F1, Alt+F2, Alt+F3, and so on. When you start XFree86, it creates a new virtual console for its display (Alt+F7 with most distributions). To temporarily switch back to text, use Ctrl+Alt+F1, F2, or whatever, and then use Alt+F7 or similar to get back to X. Why Alt sometimes and Ctrl+Alt others? When you're on a normal text screen, Linux is handling your keyboard, and Linux likes Alt+F__ to change virtual consoles (also Alt+Left and Alt+Right). When you're in X, XFree86 handles your keyboard, and since Alt+F__ is commonly needed by applications and window managers, it uses Ctrl+Alt+F__ instead. Ctrl+Alt+Backspace is another important key combo---it kills the X server. > I tryed Xrandr but get error like cannot open display (null) If your server isn't running (see startx or xdm), then there's nothing for X "clients" such as xrandr to connect to. If your server is running, normally you're executing commands like xrandr from inside a menu or xterm already connected to X, and the DISPLAY variable is automatically inherited. DISPLAY says what server to connect to. X is actually a network server, but it's also suitable for single-computer use. -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ Engineers love to change things. _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
