On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Simon Law wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, R. Alexander wrote: > > > Dear friends, > > I have desperately searched some appends but really cannot understand if > > they apply to my case. > > > > With XFree 3.x I had a perfect XF86Config for my Matrox G400 driving my 16" > > TFT display. > > > > Upgraded to 4.1.10 (on a 2.4.10 kernel) and am not able to get the > > XF86Config-4 to work and I cannot even understand why it fails !! > > > > Behaviour is that after startx for a fraction of a second I see the familiar > > correct gray stippled pattern filling my screen but than after a couple of > > "flashes" it dies back to the text console. > > > > Below is the startx 2> output and the XF86Config-4 file. Thank you VERY VERY > > VERY much for you help. Bob Alexander > > > > My guess is that you don't have a window manager or anything. > This means that X just starts up, notices that it's finished running all > the programs, and quits gracefully. Close. The problem is that /etc/X11/Xsession.d/99-??? file needs to be edited to remove the quote marks. Seriously, isn't this problem big enough to warrant a new release of that package? It causes X to NOT START for Pete's sake! -jwb
