X Windows Config

[Brian Densmore]

X looks first in your home directory for XF86Config, then
/etc/X11/XF86Config then ... eventually it will look for XF86Config-4,
but that is not the first one.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric R. [mailto:rossiter at discoverynet.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 1:27 PM
> To: pthurmond at kc.rr.com
> Cc: kclug at kclug.org
> Subject: Re: X Windows Config
> 
> 
> Here's a couple of other things to try.
> 
> Login at the command line as root and type setup.  Try your X 
> configuration from there.
> 
> _And/Or_
> 
> cd to /etc/X11 and copy XF86Config-4 to XF86Config-4.bck then delete
> XF86Config-4.  I believe XF86Config is a template and XF86Config-4 is 
> the config file.  If memory serves me, this may force a reconfig of X.
> 
> Sounds like your install of X might have abbended.  You might 
> just try a 
> re-install of Linux, reinstall X, and do not choose to boot 
> to graphical 
> mode (imho).
> 
> Is this an old video card or a reasonably new one?  You might try 
> skipping the auto-probe if you have an older graphics card.
> 
> Also, if you decide to re-install and get the little mini-screen when 
> you switch back out of video setup, you might try ctrl + alt 
> + + or - to 
> see if you have any other available video modes to select from.
> 
> E
> 
> 
> 
> pthurmond at kc.rr.com wrote:
> > So far none of these have allowed me to bring up the GUI, 
> or resolve my
> > problem. I appreciate your help though. The x86config 
> brought me to a
> > text base config tool, but it didn't fix my problem. The problem is
> > when I was setting up the video during the install of RH8 when it
> > switched back from the video test the setup screen was way 
> down in the
> > right hand corner and very unreadable. So I had to for a 
> reboot and now
> > it just throws up errors when I run startx.
> > 
> > The error is as follows(Both errors contained in [ ]  brackets):
> > [
> >    Fatal server error:
> >    no screens found
> > ]
> > 
> > [
> >    X10: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server
> > ":0.0" after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
> > ]
> > 
> > Hope this is helpful info.
> > 
> > -Patrick
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On 01-31-2003 12:57 pm, Duane Attaway <dattaway at dattaway.org> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 pthurmond at kc.rr.com wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>He guys, I had a problem with loading RH8 and need to configure
> >>
> > some
> > 
> >>>video settings so that I can load X Windows. But I don't remember
> >>
> > the
> > 
> >>>command that brings up the GUI config utility that I would get
> >>
> > towards
> > 
> >>>the end of the install of RH8. I have tried a few variations of
> >>
> > configx,
> > 
> >>>xconfigure, etc. Any ideas???
> >>
> >>Xconfigurator if I remember correctly...
> >>
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