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From: karl@NeoSoft.com (Karl Lehenbauer)
Subject: Re: [XFree86]  Help needed badly
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 04:45:32 GMT
Message-ID: <By5Jvx.8tI@NeoSoft.com>
References: <1992Nov22.203129.17299@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
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In article <1992Nov22.203129.17299@ultb.isc.rit.edu> sxx4519@ultb.isc.rit.edu (S.X. Xue) writes:
>A suggestion I
>would give here is to redirect the errors to a file by
>	xinit >& err;sync

>then you will you some error messages that you don't see on the screen by 
>catting the file "err." In my case, I found out the permission of my mouse 
>port (com1) and the font path were not set properly.

Yes, redirecting xinit is essential to figuring out problems.

I'd like to point out, too, that even if you're not getting your card
switched into graphics code, you won't see xinit's error output unless
you save it off.  

In my case it couldn't find the entry in the modem DB.  Now we're up
with a Farenheit 1280!

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