On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Jim Thomas wrote: > I'm running RedHat Enterprise Edition and am trying to change my kernel > to facilitate some networking issues. I've been frustrated by the > xserver not being able to boot when using the networking kernel, so I've > tried with a plain "vanilla kernel" and the same thing happens (see > error msg and logfile below). When I boot to the original redhat kernel > in grub, everything works fine. I haven't changed anything about the X > configuration that came with the original distribution. Please Help! > Here's the error message I get when the system attempts to start the > graphical login screen: > "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?" > Then it gives me the first few lines of the logfile up until > "(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config"" > and asks if I want to run the configuration tool, which just runs for a > minute and then the error message come up again. Then the whole process > starts over. The log you included appears incomplete. Given the system is not hanging at this point, I'd expect further messages after the loading of the vbe module. 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 developer and VP. ATI driver and X server internals. _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
