[wellylug] RE: X windows crashes

[richard bacon]

--- Peter Dawson <peter_dawson at eagle.co.nz> wrote:

> Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 14:17:56 +1300 (NZDT)
> From: David Antliff <david.antliff at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [wellylug] X windows crashes
> 
> > On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Peter Dawson wrote:
> > > On issuing a startx from a user account X seems
> to go away and do 
> > > it's thang for a normal amount of time and then
> exits with a message 
> > > on the console
> >
> > What do you have in your .xinitrc? Are you
> accidentally starting your 
> > window manager with an '&' and no 'wait'?
> Typically, your .xinitrc 
> > would have something like this as the last line:
> 
> I looked around my machine (thoroughly) and there is
> no .xinitrc anywhere on it. However that said, I may
> be barking up the wrong gumtree by starting X
> directly instead of using gdm from root...
> 
> I get a different sort of problem when starting with
> gdm, in that X winds up OK and presents a login
> screen, but, on completing the login correctly, X
> just sits there with a blank screen and a mouse
> pointer which responds satisfactorily to mouse
> movement, but no other action ensues. Clicking the
> mouse elicits no response regardless of which click
> or how many.
> 
> I notice from the Xorg.0.log that the internal
> modules are compiled on a 2.6.15 kernel, but I am
> running a custom 2.6.7 kernel which has
> satisfactorily supported X in the past, however it
> hasn't been used for he last two months, & I wonder
> if something in X has moved up and requires a newer
> kernel??? (hazards of using Etch, I guess), but a
> stock 2.6.11 kernel elicits the same behaviour so it
> would seem to be my Xorg.conf file that is causing
> the problem...
> 
> I feel somewhat lost here :-( and would appreciate a
> glimmer of hope in the distance even. My thanks BTW,
> for the suggestions so far!
> 
> Cheers, Peter :-)
> [ETX] aka [End of Message]
> > 
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Hi peter,
It looks like you are missing a .xinitrc file. Take a
read of this doc from the gentoo project, it's a good
overview and tutorial to setting X up (ymmv)

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml

Good luck


Cheers,
Richard
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