I have installed Potato 2.2r4 on a third box and am having difficulty in getting X to work.The mobo and cpu were running Potato on an upgraded box, and the harddisk held Slink for a long time.Kernel is 2.2.19, and xfree-common etc packages are v.3.3.6-11.
Normally, Debian gets X to go OK after I run 'xf86config'. This time it didn't and initially gave problems with fonts about which I asked for and got help. What happens now is:- 1. Booting is apparently normal but I get dumped into a blank screen. Ctrl+Alt+Fx puts me into a console and I can use the system normally except that during the first two or three commandline instructions I get the error message:- 'probable hardware bug:clock timer configuration lost - probably a VIA686a. restoring chip configuration' 2. If I then run 'startx', I'm told:- 'server is already active for display 0 Xlib - connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib - Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE etc xinit - unable to connect etc, no such process (errno3) etc' I expect this for I understand that display is the default, but which program sets it. Comparing 'printenv' with my other two boxes, 'DISPLAY=:0.0' and 'KDE_DISPLAY=:0.0' are missing and my attempts to set these by hand fail - they disappear on reboot. 4. If I try to run 'XF86Setup', I fail - error:- 'X11TransSocketUNIXconnect - can't connect: error111. I should have got to grips with X window system when I first started, didn't do so and now find the docs confuse me (most are not Debian specific). Is the above sufficient to enable a diagnosis of the problem to be made? Could someone give me a short rundown on the basics as they relate to Debian. I'd be very grateful for help. I have two other boxes runnin 2.2.r4, but I cannot trace any files missing which could account for my problem. john. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]