Thanks, everyone for all the help. Here's what I found that might be helpful
to others starting out:
1. From a virtual console, pressing Alt-Fn on the keyboard switches
control to virtual console n. However when X is running, the command is
ctrl-Alt-Fn. (I don't remember reading this in the documentation.)
2. As Rafael pointed out, if you install one X server (an incorrect
one, perhaps?), then install a second X server, /etc/X11/Xserver will still
point to the old server. (Again, an undocumented feature.) Editing the first
line of the script to point to the correct server solves the problem.
Now that I have X up and running (almost), there is one more nagging problem
I hope someone can help with. Everything seems to run, but there is no
cursor bitmap, just a 1"x1/4" white rectangle that moves in response to my
mouse movements. In addition, it appears that the backing store is not
working: moving a window to a new location on the display moves it
correctly, but the old location still maintains a snapshot image of the
window. (It's as if the backgound is not responding to the repaint event.)
And in a seemingly related matter menues drop down correctly only the first
time selected. After that the menu's bounding rectangle appears without the
content. I can tell the menu is there (but invisible) for I can hilight and
select menu items.
Can anyone take a guess at what's happening here? What's missing or
reconfigured wrong?
Thanks,
Harry Hersh
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rafael Cordones Marcos [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, August 20, 1998 6:10 PM
> To: Debian Users
> Subject: Re: Runaway X
>
> On Wed, Aug 19, 1998 at 10:40:18AM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote:
> > >
> > > Once I can stop the looping, I can start figuring out why the server
> > > only comes up in 340x200 mode and why /dev/psaux doesn't work as a
> > > Microsoft mouse port.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Harry Hersh
> >
>
> I don't know if this might be your problem but when I installed Deb2.0
> I couldn't start the Xserver (SVGA). And finally spotted the problem
> in the file "/etc/X11/Xserver" which had not been updated by the
> configuration script and still had the VGA16 server on the first line.
> See also "/usr/doc/X11/README.Debian"
>
> Rafa
>
>
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