On Mon, 26 May 2008 11:05:16 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2008-05-26 at 15:17 +0000, Beartooth wrote: >> On Sun, 25 May 2008 21:21:23 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: [....] >> > This has been said before, but it's worth repeating: in F9 it's often >> > better simply to not have an xorg.conf file at all and let the driver >> > work it out for itself. >> >> Then thank you for saying it again; it's news to me. >> >> What's the best way to go about not having it? Simply go to /etc/ >> X11 and rename it something like NOTxorg.conf? Use an rm command? >> Comment out something that points to it somewhere? Or what? > > Just move it to one side and restart X. I renamed it to NOTxorg.conf, which is what I presume you mean; tried startx, unsuccessfully; exited back to user, and tried startx, again unsuccessfully; rebooted; and got very different error messages during boot up from those before. So I logged in as user, and tried startx another time, again getting very different error messages -- including one that seemed to be saying X was running but illegal to connect to! Here are some fairly copious excerpts, omitting long strings especially hard to scribble and type from. (But I'll go back and slog through those too if they help.) ============================================= startx xauth: creating new authority file ... .... SocketCreateListener() failed .... server already running Fatal server error: Cannot establish any listening sockets -- make sure an X server isn't already running giving up xinit: connection refused (errno 11): unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error ================================================ You see why I say *seems* to mean -- parts of that look to be saying X is running, and parts that it's not, any yet other parts that I should check -- somehow ... Otoh, my hunch says this is progress, or at least gets us off ground zero. So what next? -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
