From: djimenez@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Daniel Jimenez) Subject: "X won't work"-type newbie question Date: 2 Jun 1992 04:29:44 GMT
I got the binaries for X off of banjo and installed them as per the
instructions. I (hope I) made the correct modifications to Xconfig
for my mouse and VGA card (1200bps microsoft mouse, Paradise VGA card).
I'm trying to see if I can get X to work within just three megabytes
of RAM (yes, I know it would be horribly slow, even if it did work,
bit I'm getting more memory soon...). Six megabytes of swap space.
With the 'bootimage' boot disk provided with the X stuff, I try
startx and the server dies with "No screens found."
With the 0.96a boot disk, the server just dies and says "giving up."
If I comment out the part about the mouse in Xconfig, I can get the
X server to just hang.
Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong? I saw someone earlier had the
"no screens" problem, but I haven't seen any responses. Is there
a FAQ for X386?
Thanks.
-- Daniel Jimenez