[newbie] X fails
total newbie. just getting started dual boot Linux/Win98 Install of linux went fine. configured X to Mach 64 server. when i try to startx the screen goes blank. The only reference I can find in the documents is to "free a getty process." I haven't a clue what this means, but looked in /etc/inittab. Six lines for getty, tty1-- tty6. nothing for tty7 or 8. Big TIA - Indras.Net is a Web ring of Peace, Culture and Education http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Rhodes/6601/ Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. -- Frederick Douglass -- Keith Robinson
Re: [newbie] X fails
make sure you have your monitor configured correctly get out your monitor manual if it isn't listed in list and make sure you have right horzontinal lines and virtical lines set in the thing when you do customi had same problem with my computer at first and thought it was graphics card but found out i just had monitor configured wrong Keith Robinson wrote: total newbie. just getting started dual boot Linux/Win98 Install of linux went fine. configured X to Mach 64 server. when i try to startx the screen goes blank. The only reference I can find in the documents is to "free a getty process." I haven't a clue what this means, but looked in /etc/inittab. Six lines for getty, tty1-- tty6. nothing for tty7 or 8. Big TIA - Indras.Net is a Web ring of Peace, Culture and Education http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Rhodes/6601/ Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. -- Frederick Douglass -- Keith Robinson NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download.html
