On Saturday 06 Sep 2003 7:57 pm, KevinO wrote: > None of my boxes start 'dm' at boot time nor run in runlevel 5. > This is one of the reasons I do this. If I am setting a box up for > someone I will make sure it comes up in runlevel 3 at least until I > am ready to hand the box over. It makes setting up/dealing with X > configuration much easier. This means checking /etc/inittab and > doing a: chkconfig --list dm > > The file that holds the config information is > /etc/X11/XF86Config(-4) depending on whether you are running > version 3 or 4 of XFree86. > > If I want to test the setup, outside of XFdrake, I will type startx > or something similar from a command line to check it. You can pop > back to the virtual console that you started it from and just > crtl-c to shut X down. > The whole graphics setup was horribly wrong. It had the wrong card driver and was using XFree86 -3 on a crt monitor. Once I found that in XFdrake keeping the line highlighted, tabbing to Do, then hitting Enter pretty hard <!!!> I could *persuade* it to give me options I was on my way. I changed card, monitor and XFree86 version.
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