Re: starts error

[pa3gcu <pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl>]

On Friday 13 September 2002 21:33, Bill Pleasants wrote:
> Thanks for your kind welcome, Ray.  As for my specific question,
> I have not used Linux before. I erased Windows and did an automatic
> installation of Mandrake 7.2 on a Packard Bell A950-TWR with a P.B.
> monitor 1512SL . The X part failed and the computer boots to the
> command prompt. I tried the kde, gnome and startx commands without
> success. I followed the steps in mandrakeuser.org/docs/xwin/xtroub.html
> through running xf86config and manually adding two suggested options.

I wonder if you saw anymessage as to why it failed when the X part failed as 
you call it.?

>
> After entering "startx" I get
> 	"execve failed for /etc/X11/X (error 2)

As Ray pointed out error 2 = no such file or directory, the above path is not 
correct, mandrake has "X" (which is a symlink to Xwrapper) located in 
/usr/X11R6/bin/
So your installed scripts whichever one it is has a wrong path in it.

Now considering you say it all went wrong at install time here is what i 
would do;
Make sure X(programs) are installed, check out /usr/X11R6/bin it should have 
something like the following;

lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            8 Nov 17  2001 X -> Xwrapper*
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root      1838528 Nov 17  2001 XF86_VMware*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      1659708 Sep 22  2001 XFree86*
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           15 Nov 17  2001 Xconfigurator -> 
../sbin/XFdrake
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           19 Nov 17  2001 Xdrakres -> 
../..//sbin/XFdrake*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        27494 Sep 22  2001 Xmark*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      3091676 Sep 22  2001 Xprt*
-rws--x--x    1 root     root         6052 Sep 22  2001 Xwrapper*


Unfortunatly some lines are wrapped above so look carefully.
Now run Xconfigurator (if installed) and see what happens.


> 	giving up
> 	xinit: Connection refused (error 111) unable to connect to X server
>         xinit: No such process (error 3): Server error."
>
>
>       	Processor type: Intel pentium 		Processor speed: 129.6
>       	RAM: 16
> 	HD type: ide 				HD capacity: 1.22
>         CD-ROM type: ide (judging by cable)
>         Graphic processor: Cirrus CL-GD5430/40 	Video RAM: 1.024
> 	Sound card: (with modem)
>
> Additional info that may be redundant:
> 			    The video processor is on the main board. There
>                             is a chip labeled CIRRUS
>                             LOGIC CL-GD5430-QC-D. This is connected to
>                             a chip labeled VLSI 9531  D43851.
>
>                             The lspcidrake command gave:
>                             VLSI: 82C594-AFC2 (unknown ignore)
>                             VLSI 82C59617 [WILDCAT] (unknown ignore)
>                             CIRRUS LOGIC | GD 5430/40 [ALPINE]
>                             (DISPLAY_VGA CARD | CIRRUS LOGIC GD543X)
>                             CMD TECHNOLOGY INC. | PCI0640
>                             (STORAGE_IDE unknown)
>
>                             SuperProbe gave:
>                             SUPER-VGA
>                             CHIPS: CIRRUS CL-GD5430/40 (PCI PROBED)
>                             1,024 KB
>                             RAMDAC: CIRRUS LOGIC BUILT IN
>                             15/16/24-BIT DAC
>                             6 BIT LOOKUP TABLES
>
> I have spent at least 30 hours searching for interpretations of the
> error messages.  If this is available, I would appreciate knowing
> where.  I have seen other errors in various logs.  Also if there is a
> list of utilities on the machine and what they do like "help" on MS DOS,
> I would appreciate learning about it.

error numbers are defined in /usr/include/asm/errno.h
Ray explained the rest.

O yes your VGA card uses the cirrus driver but at the minute your problems 
start at an earlier stage, you are not getting as far as having X read its 
config file.

>
> Yours truly,
> Bill

-- 
Regards Richard
pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl
http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/

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