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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!csn!ub!dsinc!news.ilab.bell-atl.com!bannf!server4!netnews From: bdqjl43@bell-atl.com (Vlad D. Markov) Subject: Re: XINIT or STARTX vs. ATI GX Mach64 Message-ID: <DMEtrE.549@server4.bell-atl.com> Sender: netnews@server4.bell-atl.com (Netnews Administration) Nntp-Posting-Host: segal Reply-To: bdqjl43@server4-bell-atl.com Organization: Bell Atlantic - NJ X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.5 References: <4f30vt$l4j@over.mhv.net> Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 14:33:14 GMT Lines: 14 In article <4f30vt$l4j@over.mhv.net>, cgainey@mhv.net writes: >Went thru the Novice Install procedure and have repeated xf86config, setting >up for a Mach64 wrt/H-sync, V-sync, etc. Mostly, the choices are already in >menu selections, so it's not a matter of try to "interpolate" a valid setting. >Still, when I issue startx, I get a flash of messages too quick to read and >then a blank screen. I redirected startx's stdout and stderr to a file so I could read the errors after I failed like you did. Then I could read the error and fix it. My error was an incorrect "X". Vlad