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newbie,,,startx problem

newbie,,,startx problem

Post by Dharmesh Kalya » Wed, 06 Jan 1999 04:00:00



I have a pentium 60, with a Cirrus logic GD5428 video Card 1 mb Ram, 48 mb
Ram.....

I have installed RH5.1 successfully, but when I try to startx it just goes
to a black screen and hangs. I have tried to startx &> startx.out but still
there is not startx.out created, so I do not know what the error message is.

I have also now upgraded to XFree 3.3.3-1, but still the same, and now I
cannot use Xconfigurator, after the card selection, it performs a core dump.

Please help

Dharmesh Kalyan

 
 
 
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newbie,,,startx problem

Post by Jim William » Wed, 06 Jan 1999 04:00:00


I'm getting RH5.1 running on a Gateway P60, myself, with a Viper card. Had
the same symptoms.. I used xf86config (no caps) instead of Xconfigurator,
and got it running right away. You might try that instead.


>I have a pentium 60, with a Cirrus logic GD5428 video Card 1 mb Ram, 48 mb
>Ram.....

>I have installed RH5.1 successfully, but when I try to startx it just goes
>to a black screen and hangs. I have tried to startx &> startx.out but still
>there is not startx.out created, so I do not know what the error message
is.

>I have also now upgraded to XFree 3.3.3-1, but still the same, and now I
>cannot use Xconfigurator, after the card selection, it performs a core
dump.

>Please help

>Dharmesh Kalyan


 
 
 
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