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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!caen!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!news.u.washington.edu!max.u.washington.edu!anything From: anything@max.u.washington.edu Subject: [XFree86]XOpenDisplay cannot open display :0 Message-ID: <1992Oct7.150800.1@max.u.washington.edu> Lines: 30 Sender: news@u.washington.edu (USENET News System) Organization: ÿÿÿÿ Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 22:08:00 GMT for some reason I cannot get XFree86 to start. I am using the old Beta version (1.0.2a) but still it should work. it starts. the screen blanks and then synchronizes but remains blank and the keyboard is unresponsive. my equipment is a Diamond Speedstar Plus v5.01 (et4000) and a NEC multisync II. here is a dump of /usr/X386/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-errors X386 Version 1.2E 1.0.2a / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 5000) VGA256: et4000 (mem: 1024k numclocks: 16) VGA256: clocks: 25 28 81 69 0 29 0 0 13 15 41 0 0 0 0 0 error (pid 87): IO Error in XOpenDisplay error (pid 85): Display :0 cannot be opened X386 Version 1.2E 1.0.2a / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 5000) error (pid 89): IO Error in XOpenDisplay error (pid 85): Display :0 cannot be opened X386 Version 1.2E 1.0.2a / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 5000) error (pid 91): IO Error in XOpenDisplay error (pid 85): Display :0 cannot be opened X386 Version 1.2E 1.0.2a / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 5000) error (pid 93): IO Error in XOpenDisplay error (pid 85): Display :0 cannot be opened error (pid 85): Display :0 is being disabled Don Levinson anything@max.u.washington.edu alt: levinson@halcyon.com