On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Enrile, Roy wrote: > Hello. Can you please help me to make the "startx" command work under > Red Hat Linux 7.3, so I can get the GUI rather than command line prompt? > I keep getting an xfree86 error when running it. > I have an IBM T40 Laptop with WinXP Pro sp1, then VMWare workstation > 4.0, then RedHat Linux 7.3 installed. I installed the VMWare tools for > linux. I edited /etc/inittab and changed the line that begins with > "id:3" and make it "id:5" which will make it start > in init level 5. Then I ran Xconfigurator (see attached file for > settings). Finally I ran startx and got some xfree86 errors. Can you > please look at the attached config and log files, and > Help me get startx and my gui working? > Maybe you need to make VESA driver in XFree86 4.2.0 somehow run better > on vmware's emulated video? ... or maybe you need to use the vmware driver. Marc. +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | Marc Aurele La France | work: 1-780-492-9310 | | Computing and Network Services | fax: 1-780-492-1729 | | 352 General Services Building | email: tsi@xxxxxxxxxxx | | University of Alberta +-----------------------------------+ | Edmonton, Alberta | | | T6G 2H1 | Standard disclaimers apply | | CANADA | | +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ XFree86 Core Team member. ATI driver and X server internals. _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
