X server won't start

Alexander Dalloz alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de
Mon May 17 12:26:33 UTC 2004


Am Mo, den 17.05.2004 schrieb oiro isaiah um 08:30:

> hi
> i installed a new vga card.Nvidia geForce mx.i can run redhat-config-xfree86 successfully,
> but when i give the command startx, the x session fails to start, giving the following error message: 
>  
>  Section "ServerLayout"
>  not a recognized section name.
>  
> 
> What do i do?

mv /etc/X11/XF86Config /etc/X11/backup.XF86Config

Redo the X configuration from scratch using redhat-config-xfree86.

Alexander


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