Flittigs at PICT wrote: > Hello all, we are undergrad students trying to install and compile the > latest X release on a virtual box. We did all installation on /opt/MPX > prefix. > > on doing "sudo /opt/MPX/bin/X -config /../xorg.conf" , the X server starts > running and screen goes blank. We also changed the startx script to > accomodate the new path for X. Can anyone help on this? thanks This is perfectly normal. Congratulations, you have a running X. You just don't have a running desktop engine.
startx starts X, not the other way round. Try: sudo startx -- /opt/MPX/bin/X -config /../xorg.conf HTH, Simon _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
