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Re: XWindows Help : Microsoft will help you find the way !!

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From: mallen
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 00:00
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Scott wrote:
> 
> I have just set up a Lunux system using the slackware distribution.  I
> installed the packages for the X windows system and I have run the
> configuration utility.  When i type in startx, it comes up with the
> following message;
> 
> FATAL SERVER ERROR
> NO VALID MODES FOUND
Microsoft Tech Support Saves the Day

There was a pilot flying a small single engine charter plane, with a
couple 
of very important executives on board. He was coming into Seattle
airport 
through thick fog with less than 10m visibility when his instruments
went 
out. So he began circling around looking for landmark. After an hour or
so, 
he starts running pretty low on fuel and the passengers are getting very 
nervous. Finally, a small opening in the fog appears and he sees a tall 
building with one guy working alone on the fifth floor. The pilot banks
the 
plane around, rolls down the window and shouts to the guy "Hey, where am
I? 
To this, the solitary office worker replies "You're in a plane." The
pilot 
rolls up the window, executes a 275 degree turn and proceeds to execute
a 
perfect blind landing on the runway of the airport 5 miles away. Just as 
the plane stops, so does the engine as the fuel has run out.

The passengers are amazed and one asks how he did it. "Simple" replies
the  
 pilot, "I asked the guy in that building a simple question. The answer 
he gave me was 100 percent correct but absolutely useless, therefore
that 
must be Microsoft's support office and from there the airport is just a 
while away." 


> GIVING UP
> 
> XINIT: CONNECTION REFUSED (ERRNO 111) :UNABLE TO CONNECT TO X SERVER
> XINIT: NO SUCH PROCESS (ERRNO 3): SERVER ERROR
> 
> I am using the following video hardware;
> Cirrus Logic cgld5422
> Video memory = 1024
> svga 800*600
> 
> any help would be appreciated !!
> 
> Scott
> Scooter2@geocities.com
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From: mallen <mallen@cia-g.com>
Subject: Re: XWindows Help : Microsoft will help you find the way !!
Date: 1997/11/27
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