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[Anton Aylward <anton.aylward@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Wolfgang Mueller said the following on 04/12/2011 01:00 PM:
> Having installed Suse 11.4 on my new laptop, X does not start and startx
> does not work.
>
> Is there any other way to invoke X? How can I set up the configuration
> file for X? 

Unless you have some very strange hardware that you haven't told us
about you should not need to any more.


> I did that so often years ago, but I forgot the name of the
> program. Unfortunately Suse keeps that secret in the 11.4 manual.

No, its not a secret because its not there any more.  Since X now
autoconfigures its not needed.

Well that's the theory.
The practice is that there are some cases, but since you haven't given
us any clues we can't drill down.




> Any hint would be welcome.


There are probably lots of hints in your log files.
Have a look for
/var/log/Xorg.0.log
and the kdm or gdm or xdm log
/var/log/kdm.log or similar

There may be older versions of some of those files

> Thanks in advance,


The program you were looking for is sax2
See http://en.opensuse.org/Archive:SaX2

I suggest you find out why the automatic config is failing BEFORE you
resort to sax2 or manual configuration.  If you don't you may end up
hosing your X even further.



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