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Article #800Re: XWindows Help !!
From: David M. Brown
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 00:00
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 > GIVING UP > > XINIT: CONNECTION REFUSED (ERRNO 111) :UNABLE TO CONNECT TO X SERVER > XINIT: NO SUCH PROCESS (ERRNO 3): SERVER ERROR There seems to be a bug in the setup for a lot of Cirrus Logic chipsets (for XFree86, that is). Edit the configuration file that the setup wrote (default is /etc/XF86Config) and comment out the "Clocks..." line. That should clear things up. (I had a cl542x at work for a while and had to figure that one out.) Of course, if you're not using XF86, then this doesn't really matter, now does it? David Caldera Technical Support http://www.caldera.com
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: faa64,76d8ca3da4f06a2e X-Google-Attributes: gidfaa64,public X-Google-Thread: f9b51,76d8ca3da4f06a2e X-Google-Attributes: gidf9b51,public X-Google-Thread: 100c5f,76d8ca3da4f06a2e X-Google-Attributes: gid100c5f,public X-Google-Thread: 102983,76d8ca3da4f06a2e X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public From: "David M. Brown" <david@caldera.com> Subject: Re: XWindows Help !! Date: 1997/11/27 Message-ID: <347E4C64.7CC80140@caldera.com> X-Deja-AN: 293314463 References: <347a83f6.0@139.134.5.33> To: Scott <scooter2@geocities.com> Newsgroups: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.setup