On June 1, 2004 01:11 pm, sangu wrote: > 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 Thanks, this allowed to me to gain some more insight into the problem, and eventually find a way around it. Turned out that all I had to do was to comment out the "Load dri" command in the configuration file. In the fs/config file I also found a type in the font list. There were two commas in a row (a bug?). I removed one, but I doubt that is what solved it. Thanks, Fred > 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. -- _______________________________________________________ Fred Nastos Ph.D. Candidate Department of Physics Tel: 416-978-4364 University of Toronto Fax: 416-978-2537 60 St. George Street Toronto, ON M5S 1A7 Web: www.physics.utoronto.ca/~nastos _______________________________________________________
