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- From: zxmsu01@studserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (Joost Schuur)
- Subject: Problems starting X
- Message-ID: <zxmsu01.721583934@studserv>
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- Organization: Comp. Center (ZDV) U of Tuebingen, FRG
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 15:58:54 GMT
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- Well.. I got myself the S3 chipset version of X386 1.1 from
- ftp.robots.ox.ac.uk, and set up all the right dirs, however when I
- run X, I seem to be getting just the default (at least I hope its
- default) blue 'desktop' background. I'm running 800x600 mode and
- do have both Xconfig and .xinitrc in my home dir and I did setup
- the DISPLAY variable and paths et al. Like I said, I get this nice
- screen with no mouse and no further disk activity, except about 30
- seconds later, my hard disk does get active one last time (paging?)
- Nothing works, not even Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, and I have to perform
- a hard reset. When I start Linux, by the way, my Genius serial mouse
- at COM1 is not recognized. Should I use the Microsoft setting in the
- mouse entry of Xconfig (they are supposed to be compatible)? I even
- tried 'startx > err', but after a reboot, the err file is empty.
-
- That brings me to a second question. What if my systems locks up, and
- I have to reboot. I can't sync, so is it possible that I may lose
- some disk data that hasn't been flushed yet?
-
- Thanks in advance,
-
- -Joost Schuur (jschuur@studserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de)
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