on Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 09:28:57PM -0800, Bob Nielsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I had a problem with woody several days ago where X would die > immediately after starting, before the window manager took over. In > trying to fix it, I really messed up my X installation, so I decided to > downgrade to potato and did a fresh installation of 2.2r2. I did this > and everything was working fine (including X). > > Since I had started with a somewhat minimal installation I just added a > lot of new packages and now X dies immediately after starting with no > messages, which is the same behaviour I had before with woody. > > System is a K6/2-350 with 128 MB, Cirrus 5430-based video card with > 2048k videoram. > > Any ideas as to where I should be looking?
How are you starting X? Command line or /etc/init.d scripts? Find an appropriate .xsession-errors file lying around anywhere? -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ Evangelist, Zelerate, Inc. http://www.zelerate.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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