Subject: Re: XServer failure
To: Petra Hofmann <petra_lynn@usa.net>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 06/10/2000 17:30:42
On Thu, Jul 17, 2036 at 01:37:54PM -0500, Petra Hofmann wrote:
> This installation is becomming very tedious to say the least.  After
> successfully installing now I cant' seem to get X to start.  I got xf86Config
> to run and Think I configured the video and mouse correctly.  But, startx & 

'startx &' is not a good idea. You may end with 2 processes competing for
keyboard access: X and your shell. Use 'startx' (i.e. leave it in the
forground).

> doesn't work.  I get x server failed to start msg.  Clearlyl I've done
> something incorrectly, Help, Petra Lynn.

Could you do 'startx >& /tmp/x.log' and tell us what's in the x.log file ?

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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