Can you run X as root? If so then you need to look at
permissions -
waht are the permissions of things beginning with .X or.x in your
home directory? Should be "user user" or "user users". The
neatest way is to get into /home and do
chown -R xnma /home/xnma (- whatever your user name is)
chgrp -R users(or xnma) /home/xnma
BUT
it sounds like you're missing something vital rpm - have you got
those fonts installed? (Find the installlog file - it should
tell you!)
HTH
Glyn M.
On Sat, Jun 03, 2000 at 04:34:53PM +0930, thus spake Vyking:
> Hello,
>
> I hope that someone can help with this frustrating problem I have been
> having.
>
> I recently purchased the Linux Mandrake 7.0 Complete Operating System. I am
> having troubles with booting X Windows.
>
> System:
> Celeron 433
> 128 Mb Ram
> Linux installation is on secondary hard drive (Partition is 3Gb).
> 3dfx Voodoo 3 3500 video card AGP (16Mb)
>
> The actual installation runs without a hitch. I do the test for the
> configuration of X Windows and this displays perfectly. I choose to keep
> the setting.
>
> On bootup, I login with no problems (X Windows not configured to boot
> automatically). When I type startx, the problems begin.
>
> I get a blue screen with the mouse pointer as a black X. I have a small
> window top left with the command prompt, as well as another window with the
> command prompt that is a little larger on the bottom right. Both prompts
> are active when the mouse pointer is hovered over that window. This goes no
> further. There are no error messages.
>
> I have tried everything I can think of. I have used the upgrade process to
> go in and change settings (monitor, resolution, card etc) many times but
> with no luck. I have formatted and reinstalled. I have tried using a PCI
> ET6000 graphics card.
>
> I have set X Windows to automatically boot but get something slightly
> different. The screen is blue with a small window saying login and
> password. This is not the normal KDE login, but more a text based window.
>
> I have never used or installed Linux before, but it appears that the
> graphical processes are failing to run.
>
> When at the prompts (after trying startx), I have tried typing startx
> again. I get a message stating that the server is already running.
>
> When hitting Ctrl Alt F12 I do notice the following messages
> "The directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi does not exist
> Entry deleted from font path
> The directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi does not exist
> Entry deleted from font path"
>
> I'm not sure if this would cause the symptoms I have, but thought I'd put it
> in anyway.
>
> I would appreciate it if someone could find the time to help me out.
>
> Thanks,
> Brett
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