...not sure, because I began running xdm for potato, but did you copy and config an .xinitrc to the user home directory X is running in? You might check the X docs on this.
Art On Fri, Oct 08, 1999 at 07:56:47PM -0700, Ron Farrer wrote: > David Coe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Well, as a starting point, try just this: > > > > 1) exit to be sure we start clean > > 2) login (as root or a normal user, doesn't really matter for this test, > > maybe even try both to see if there are differences). > > 3) at the shell prompt just type 'xinit' and watch to see what happens; > > it will either spew out a bunch of text and start an X window with a > > single xterm (from which you can 'exit'), or it will spew out a bunch of > > text and fail just like before. Let me know what it does, and what it > > spews. > > Okay, I logged in as root and typed 'xinit' and it went to vt7 and just > sits there with a blank screen. Switching back to the vt that I started > with, it has the error I previously posted about connection broken. > > > TIA, > > Ron > -- > ========================= > = Ronald Burnett Farrer = > ========================= > ------------------------------------ > - "mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]" - > - "http://www.magnesium.net/~rbf/"; - > ------------------------------------ > !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > ! If you let Windows dominate, expect the worst: ! > ! "WORLD.SYS is corrupt, reboot UNIVERSE Y/n" ! > !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????? > ? "How could this [Y2K Bug] be a problem in a country ? > ? where we have Intel and Microsoft?" -- Al Gore ? > ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????? > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
