reinstall your previous version of X i heard somewhere that x114 really isnt
stable
kenny
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Schussman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2000 1:31 PM
Subject: [newbie] Now I've done it -- broken X?
> Hi-
>
> Why I thought this was a good idea to tinker with the week before finals
> I'll never know. I tried upgrading XFree86 4.0 so I could use the
> newly-released Nvidia drivers, but I must have missed a step or
> misconfigured something, because now X won't run at all.
>
> When I initially tried the upgrade (using RPMs) a couple of nights ago, I
> was able to run startx and get Xwindows running, no problem -- but without
> the accellerated drivers. I couldn't get them to install properly, nor
> could I get the previous nvidia drivers to work (they at least had a
> modicum of accelleration in them), once I had made the upgrades.
> xf86config wouldn't make a workable XF86Config file, but Xconfigurator
> could (which strikes me as very odd).
>
> Yesterday, however, when I booted up, I wasn't able to load X at all. I'm
> getting the error: execve failed on /etc/X11/X (errno 2). /etc/X11/X is
> linked to XF86_SVGA, a file which seems to be nowhere to be found -- and
> despite re-installing XFree86-SVGA, is still missing. I can also no longer
> run Xconfigurator; it dies after probing for my video card. Am I missing
> something serious (like bolts in my head for even trying this) or do you
> think this might be a config problem? (Or both -- certainly possible.)
>
> Any ideas how I can at least get X up and running again?
>
> Thanks-
> - alan
>
>
>
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