On Wed, 9 Sep 1998 23:14:21 +0200 (MEST), Lenz Grimmer writes about Re: [SuSE Linux] SaX:
I tried just about everything I can think of with xf86setup [which does not go to graphic mode, grips all the VTs, then flunks on me with unable to connect to X server message, console says errno = 111 and err 3 no process] and xf86config [through every possible IMHO setting for my CTX SVGA monitor and CL5435 1 meg graphics card, mode line, vsync and hsync settings, same errors as above] but no joy.
Sound familiar to anyone?
Unfortunately, errno 111 is just an error from an X client (see the XFree86-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.xfree86.org/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.xfree86.org/FAQ/</A">http://www.xfree86.org/FAQ/</A</A>> for details), it is not the error that caused the X server to crash. If you start X with the command "startx", you will find a log file in your home directory, called ~/.X.err, which you can examine with "less", for example. It contains all the startup-messages from the X-Server, maybe you can find a hint in there, what's going wrong in your case. Also make sure, that you have
I didn't realise that startx dumped to a file so I did it manually at first, with the same results! Been using that of course to try to figure out my problems - would there be any objections if I posted it here?
installed the correct X-Server ("rpm -q xsvga" should give you a version
Will give that a shot - I *did* wonder if the older version of XF86_SVGA from my once-working Slackware setup might be worth trying, as it worked before?
number), and that the link /var/X11R6/bin/X is pointing to /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA. You can check this with the "file"-Command. For technical notes about running XFree on Cirrus-based cards, see the release notes at /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc/README.cirrus. The contain some useful hints.
I checked with ls -la and the sym_link is right. I know because I killed the link to X, startx'd and got no link errors, then re-did it with ln and back to sq. 1 :( Thanks for your thoughts - I'll get there... Regards Tony <tonyd@mersinet.co.uk> - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e