>On Thu, 22 Jun 1995, Brad Salai wrote:
>
>> >
>> >> (3) The FIRST time I type startx or xinit I get ...
>> >>
>> >>     Fatal Server Error;
>> >>     Can't run X server with no screens!
>> >>     X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown)
>> >
>> >This is a bug that I haven't had time to track down.  Dt will work
>> >similarly, except that it won't fail...  It will think it's working,
>> >but won't draw anything.
>>
>> I have a similar problem, with the additional feature that with two
>> screens, I sometimes get only one of the two screens to come up. X works
>> normally with one screen, as well as with two, but it often takes a three
>> step process
>> startx -  fail -  kill
>> startx -  one screen  -  kill
>> startx  - both screens!!
>
>well, I have a slightly similar problem :)
>
>startx # 1 - "can't run x with no screens!"
>startx # 2 - recognizes screen 0, desktop pattern comes up, then coredumps
>startx # 3 - "can't run x with no screens!"
>startx # 4 - recognizes screens 0 and 1, desktop pattern comes up, coredump
>startx # 5 - "can't run x with no screens!"
>startx # 6 - recognizes screen 0, same as before.
>
>so I just get one more step inserted, except that X never starts. =)
>
As someone already pointed out, I was not quite accurate with what I see.
Actually it is
startx -  fail -  kill
startx -  one screen  -  kill
startx -  fail -  kill
startx  - both screens!!

I think that I saw a note that someone knows what the problem is and how to
fix it. At most it is presently inconvenient, I can certainly work around
it.

Brad

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