Re: Problems starting X [FC2]

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1. Modified /etc/X11/fs/config file.
#no-listen = tcp

2. Modified /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section "files"
 	FontPath "tcp/localhost:7100"
EndSection

3. $startx

2004-06-01 (í) 12:55 -0400ì, Fred Nastos ìêë:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to get Fedora Core 2 working on the following system:
> 	cpu: P4-2.8E
> 	mb: ASUS P4S800D-E DLX S478 SIS655TX DDR
> 	ram: DDR 2x512 MB
> 	video: ATI RADEON 7000 64M AGP
> 
> This will be a linux-only computer.  Sorry for the long-winded
> description below, but I am trying to give as much detail as
> possible.
> 
> The installation procedure went fine (though I have searched the
> web and found that many have had trouble with the installation
> on the ASUS 800-series mboards).  But when I went for my first
> reboot, the computer seemed to crash as soon as the boot
> sequence started, that is immediately after the "Press 'I' to enter 
> interactive setup" message the screen went blank and the computer
> froze (ctrl-alt-backspace did nothing).
> 
> I got rid of the graphical boot loader by dropping "rhgb quiet" from
> the grub boot paramaters and the boot sequence went well until
> it came time to load X, at which point the computer crashed again.
> A message flashed onto the screen before the screen went blank
> but it was impossible to read.  I then logged into single mode by
> appending "single" to the boot parameters, and managed to get a
> terminal.  Looking through the file Xorg.0.log I found the error message:
> 
> 	Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list!
> 	Fatal server error:
> 	could not open default font 'fixed'
> 
> I searched the web a little, and found that this had to do with the
> xfs service not running.  During the full boot up seqeunce, with
> the deafult parameters passed to the kernel, it says
> 	Starting xfs:     [OK]
> so maybe it is getting killed/stopped somehow?  Anyway, when
> I load up in single mode, xfs isn't started by default, so I started
> it with
> 	/etc/init.d/xfs start
> And then I tried to run startx, which wouldn't because xauth
> wasn't in my path.  I guess root isn't supposed to start X?
> After I put the /usr/X11R6/bin directory in my path and ran
> startx, the system crashed again.  I could not find a log file
> though.
> 
> I repeated everything above, and decided to run Xorg
> instead of startx.  This generated a log file, but the log
> file was not very useful.  It is ery short, and ends with
> 
> (WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such device)
> (II) Module ABI versions:
>         X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.2
>         X.Org Video Driver: 0.7
>         X.Org XInput driver : 0.4
>         X.Org Server Extension : 0.2
>         X.Org Font Renderer : 0.4
> (II) Loader running on linux
> (II) LoadModule: "bitmap"
> 
> And that's all there is in it.  I'm stuck.  Any help would be
> much appreciated.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 



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