X Server Configuration?

Partho Protim Paul penguin.partho at gmail.com
Sat Nov 12 03:13:31 UTC 2005


xorgcfg --textmode or else X -config, fill up the details.
good luck!!
cheers
partho

On 11/2/05, Nathaniel Stickney <firewielder at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Running "less less /var/log/Xorg.0.log" outputs "file not found"; "rpm -qa
> | grep xorg" outputs:
>
> xorg-x11-Mesa libGLU-6.8.2-31
> xorg-x11-xauth-6.8.2-31
> fonts-xorg-base-6.8.2-1
> xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL-6.8.2-31
> xorg-x11-twn-6.8.2-31
> fonts-xorg-75dpi-6.8.2-1
> xorg-x11-libs-6.8.2-31
> xorg-x11-font-utils-6.8.2-31
> xorg-x11-xfs-6.8.2-31
> fonts-xorg-100dpi-6.8.2-1
> error: rpmdbNextIteraror: skipping h# 516 Header V3 DSA signature: BAD,
> key
> ID 4f2a6fd2
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Message: 6
> Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 07:29:48 -0500
> From: Nathaniel Stickney <firewielder at gmail.com>
> Subject: X Server Configuration?
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
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> Yesterday afternoon I installed Fedora Core 4 on my main desktop, and as
> far
> as I can tell, everything is working correctly, but I cannot get any GUI
> sessions started, and I get a message "I cannot start the X server (your
> graphical interface). It is likely that it is not set up correctly. Would
> you like to view the X server output to diagnose the problem?" when I
> reboot; choosing <Yes> leads to a text login prompt; <No> does the same. I
> have not used Linux in a few years (due to being on a restrictive DoD
> network), but the Suse 9.0 that was on my computer before and a Knoppix
> disk
> both worked fine with my hardware -- relevant parts listed below.
>
> ABIT NF7-S v2.0 motherboard, bios 27
> 3x 512MB Corsair PC3200 ram
> ATI Radeon 9800XT video card
> Western Digital WD740GB and WD2500JB hard drives
>
> Any ideas would be tremendously appreciated!
>
> --
> -Nathaniel H. Stickney
>
> Amendment II:
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> the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
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> Message: 7
> Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 12:33:14 +0000
> From: Andy Green <andy at warmcat.com>
> Subject: Re: X Server Configuration?
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
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> Nathaniel Stickney wrote:
>
> > Yesterday afternoon I installed Fedora Core 4 on my main desktop, and as
> > far as I can tell, everything is working correctly, but I cannot get any
> > GUI sessions started, and I get a message "I cannot start the X server
> > (your graphical interface). It is likely that it is not set up
> > correctly. Would you like to view the X server output to diagnose the
> > problem?" when I reboot; choosing <Yes> leads to a text login prompt;
>
> less /var/log/Xorg.0.log
>
> go to the end and look for the earliest (EE) errors for clues.
>
> -Andy
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> -Nathaniel H. Stickney
>
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