From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: pa3gcu Subject: Re: starts error Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 09:20:26 +0000 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <02091409202603.03392@unix.pa3gcu> References: <7C078C66B7752B438B88E11E5E20E72E0EF512@GENERAL.farsite.co.uk> <5.1.0.14.1.20020913084016.02317ec0@celine> <3D82599F.6F753060@aaahawk.com> Reply-To: pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-Reply-To: <3D82599F.6F753060@aaahawk.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Bill Pleasants , linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org 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/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs