On Wednesday, July 16, 2003 10:05 am, Christian Convey wrote:
> Also, I stopped using xfs, based on a recommendation from Andy Goth,
> just to take one more potential problem out of the situation.  I now
> explicitely use font paths, and I verified they work ok before I started
> installing the new version of XF86.

We might want to come back and debug the xfs problem.

> Problem 2:  When I then rebooted, X came up, but not in a good way.  My
> background was a small black/white cross-hatch, and I had a very plain
> console in the top-left corner.  The mouse worked, but they keyboard
> didn't.  I couldn't even alt-shift-f1.

Alt+Shift+F1 probably did exactly what it was supposed to do, that is, 
nothing.  Try Alt+CTRL+F1. :^)

Run more programs, including a window manager, from the xterm (twm is great if 
you like ugly displays, heh).  Use "xsetroot -solid steelblue" for a prettier 
background.  Don't forget to start long-running programs backgrounded by 
putting a & at the end of the command line.  You can also put this stuff into 
an .xinitrc in your home directory or into /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc (or even 
/usr/X11R6/bin/startx if you really want to).  It's been so long since I used 
xdm that I can't really help with it.

I'd read the logs and the rest of the email, but it's time for mass.  See you 
all later.

-- 
Andy Goth  |  [EMAIL PROTECTED]  |  http://ioioio.net/
Engineers love to change things.

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