On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Martin Baillie wrote:
> I recently installed slackware8 and I am having problems with the new version of X,
>whatever it is :)
>
> using XFree86 -configure it created me a pretty good config (I included it in this
>mail)
>
> It loads up the screen, and everything looks fine but nothing happens, all I see is
>a blank screen with the mouse pointer in the middle. It doesn't load the bottom menu
>etc, or the desktop if you can picture it.
>
> I also included an x.out taken from 'x -configure 2> x.out' so hopefully someone can
>spot my problem
>
> Regards,
> Martin
>
Are you starting up a window manager? - try doing
echo exec startkde > ~/.xinitrc
to start up kde. Another idea would be as root do
init 4
This will initiate a graphical logon
Good Luck
Monkey
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