On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, John Albers-Mead wrote:

> I have been trying for a little bit to get X up and running.  "startx" and
> "xterm" don't want to work but if I type "X" it launches into X windows but

What precisely does "don't want to work" mean?  Does it mean no error
does it mean runs for a second and exists, does it mean I get an
error message(which I haven't included)?

> then I can't do anything (no windows- only the patterned background with my
> mouse cusor looking like an X).  I cannot get out of this and I can't get
> any response from the machine.  Any ideas?
> 
> - JAM

It is very hard to help people with out good details of what exactly you
tried, and what exactly you got back.

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