[PLUG] Mandrake kinks question 1

[Christopher N. Deckard]

I don't think Xconfigurator will work.  That is for XFree 3x.  You are
running XFree 4.

Um, make sure that xfs (X Font Server) is installed and running.  It
should be, but verify it.

Next, do (as root) 'XFree86 -configure'.  This will create a new
XF86Config file.  Put this in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 (notice the
'-4').  

The other problem your may be having is X doesn't know what to run so
it starts up, doesn't see anything to run, and then dies.

-Chris

Scott Minster wrote:
> 
> I installed Mandrake 7.2 on my system (formally approximately Mandrake 6 with various
> random upgrades) at Install fest this weekend.  The system seems to be working all right,
> except for a few things.  The biggest problem I have right now is that I can't run
> X-Windows.  It comes up into run level 3 just fine (where I have it set right now).  I log
> in, and run startx.  It seems to start up fine, switches to graphical mode, the "x" mouse
> pointer changes into an arrow mouse pointer, and then all of the sudden, I'm back at the
> command prompt with a "Fatal server error: caught signal 11. Server aborting".  I've tried
> changing the settings in Xconfigurator, but they don't seem to have any effect.  I can't
> figure out what's going wrong or how to fix it.  I'm attaching a log file that's generated
> during the crash.  Does anyone have any ideas?
> 
> ----
> Scott Minster
> sminster@purdue.edu
> http://mland.dhs.org/
> icq://18777468/  (OK, that's not an established protocol, but it should be :)
> 
>   ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>                     Name: XFree86.0.log
>    XFree86.0.log    Type: unspecified type (application/octet-stream)
>                 Encoding: quoted-printable


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