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- From: rgb@esleng.ocunix.on.ca (Richard Briggs)
- Subject: Re: problems getting X running
- Message-ID: <1992Aug25.184349.27831@esleng.ocunix.on.ca>
- Keywords: X11 configuration bourne shell script testing tool
- Organization: Excalibur Systems Limited, Kanata, Ontario, Canada
- References: <1992Aug18.194422.25702@esleng.ocunix.on.ca> <Aug.19.22.38.33.1992.8120@athos.rutgers.edu> <1992Aug24.204326.8604@julian.uwo.ca>
- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 18:43:49 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug24.204326.8604@julian.uwo.ca> klode@syslab.csd.uwo.ca (Claude Morin) writes:
- >In article <Aug.19.22.38.33.1992.8120@athos.rutgers.edu> hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) writes:
- >>rgb@esleng.ocunix.on.ca (Richard Briggs) writes:
- >>
- >>>Hi Linux'ers:
- >>
- >>>Any time I try to initialize, the screen goes dead and a terminal on a serial
- >>>port is the only feedback I've been able to get aside from capture files.
- >
- >I've had the same problem with MGR and X11. Configuring either one is
- >incredibly frustrating because of the need to capture output blindly, then
- >reboot if things go wrong. I got so sick of this a few months ago that
- >I wrote the following (tiny) script.
-
- As I said this wasn't a problem, as I had a pc beside to use as an ASCII
- terminal, but I had no idea where to go from the error messages.
- >
- >BTW, I would appreciate it if someone would post at least one followup to this
- >article, since I'm not sure my postings are making it out into the world.
- >
- I found the problem, which was in fact the Modes line missing or commented
- out....in any case, the clocks and modes could not talk. All fixed :-)
-
- Thanks, Richard
- >---
- >Claude Morin
- >(that's "klode", NOT "clod"...French :-)
- >London, Ontario, Canada
-
- --
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- Excalibur Systems Limited | rgb@[esleng|excalibur].ocunix.on.ca
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