On 10 Jun 2000, Petra Hofmann wrote:

> Hi again,
> 
> Disregard the msg about the keyboard.  I was using the wrong one at the time.

:-) 

> Any way, after performing the suggested comd get a blank screen with #
> prompt.

Yes, this is because your X server is not starting up for some reason
and you redirected its output to a file, thus not showing anything on the
screen.

You should check the file specified (Manuel suggested /tmp/x.log) and
either browse through it for some error messages that give you an idea of
what is going wrong or post the file to this list.
 
> # ls -l /usr/X11R6//bin/X  returns
> 
> lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 24 Jun 9 16:27 /usr/X11R6/bin/X ->
> /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA

This looks okay at first sight. However, you should check out that your
graphics card is supported by the standard SVGA X server (most modern SVGA
cards are). There is readme file available for each X server describing
which graphics cards it supports. 

What's the exact name of yours? In case you don't know you might try
"dmesg | grep vga" or something like this.

Bye, K&K,
T-Zee
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