Subject: Re: Can't get X to run (yet another !)
To: None <jm@altern.org>
From: Ken Nakata <kenn@synap.ne.jp>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 05/03/1998 08:20:57
On Sat, 2 May 98 21:16:15 -0000,
Jean Marie <jm@altern.org> wrote:
> 
> Well, here it is :
> 
> I'm using a mac Quadra 700 20/500, with a 100 meg root&usr partition and 
> a 20 meg qwap partition, a french keyboard (hey, when will you make a 
> driver for that, guys ? I'm no programmer :`(  )
> I have no card, no VRAM extension. I use an Apple 14" in 640*480 (not the 
> multisync av). I login as root.
> When I want X to run, it clears the screen, writes 3 lines (something 
> like info on my monitor's settings)
> and fastly clears the screen again. Then it prints out :
> 
> X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown)
> and I go back to the good'ol # prompt

I want to know what the "3 lines" say.  You can take log by doing like
this:

# startx >xerror.log 2>&1		# if you use /bin/sh

or

# startx &>xerror.log			# if you use /bin/csh

And show us the log file.  Thanks,

Ken