** Reply to message from mhf <michael.flug@snet.net> on Sun, 14 Jan 2001 02:26:04 -0500
XF86Config: /etc/XF86Config (**) stands for supplied, (--) stands for probed/default values (--) no ModulePath specified using default: /usr/X11R6/lib/modules dbe: Unknown error loading module
Config Error: /etc/XF86Config: 48
Subsection "extmod" ^^^^^^^^^
Module section keyword expected X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
This extmod is what allows the X server to do Shapes other than straight text characters. For the purpose of getting the X server to load, I don't think that it is absolutely necessary. So, where you see the line Load "extmod", put a "#" in front of that line, restart X and see what happens. I am assumiing in all this that you are booting to a console prompt. If not, edit the line in /etc/inittab that reads like "id:3:initdefault:" to read "id:2:default". You can reach the init 2 state by entering, as root, at the console prompt "init 2". That way if the X server fails to load, there will be a lot of messages on the console screen that may give you some hints. You can also do cat /var/log/messages | more to read through messages from the startup process. WARNING: This file can be very big. Ed Harrison SuSE 6.4, Kernel 2.2.18, IBM JDK 1.1.8 (20000713) or Warp 4, FP12 or Windows98 (running in vmware 2.0.3 for fun) PolarBarMailer 1.1.19