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From: matthieu@laas.fr (Matthieu Herrb)
To: jfw@ksr.com (John F. Woods)
Cc: current-users@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu
Subject: X troubles
X-Organization: LAAS-CNRS Toulouse, France
X-Phone: (33) 61 33 63 30
Content-Length: 617
Sender: owner-current-users@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu
You wrote (in your message from Thu 4)
> Now that I have XFree86 2.1.1 on my newly-updated 1.0B system (Aug 1 tars
> from ftp.iastate.edu), I can't get X to work. The X server exits immediately;
> some fooling around with SuperProbe revealed that it is exiting when it calls
> ``ioctl(CONS_fd, X_CONSOLE_MODE_ON, ...)''. I have 'options USERVER,XCONSOLE'
> in my kernel config, is there something else that I'm missing? Why does
> ioctl hate me? :-)
start X with stdout and stderr redirected to a file
(eg ``xinit >& xinit.log'') and look at the result. The answer is
probably obvious.
Matthieu