Re: [tlug] Lost my XWindows

[Andy Hunne <andy@example.com>]

Generally when X fails to initialise, you will get a message with the
line number of the file that is the problem.  In the past when I have
had issues with X starting after reconfiguring something, it was with
the XF86Config file (may be called XF86Config-4, depending on your
version), located in /etc/X11/XF86Config.

As Dmytro suggested, the best bet is to try and send the actual error. 
Good luck!

Andy Hunne

On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 09:45, Dmytro Koval'ov wrote:
> 
> >>>>> On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, "Jim" == Jim Breen wrote:
> 
>   Jim> Good. So your advice to Chuck is that he edit that file? Any
>   Jim> suggestions?  I guess it's the default-point-size, etc. My
>   Jim> contents of that area are:
> 
> Actually, it's hard to tell what to do, without seeing actual error 
> message. Could be that xfs just dead. Than it's a different story. 
> 
> Chuck,
> 
> Could you send exact error message you see when X refuses to start? 
> Probably you can't see message when you boot system, because when 
> Mandrake can't start into runlevel 5 it automatically swithces to 
> runlevel 3 and actual error message from X is hidden under login 
> screen. Try to login with your login name/passwd and do "startx".
> 
> --Dmytro
> 
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