Re: Start X?

[Jim Cornette <fc-cornette@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lyle Kopnicky wrote:
> Jim Cornette wrote:
>
> > Lyle Kopnicky wrote:
> >
> > > OK, I can't figure out how to start X in Fedora Core 3.  I've got 
> > > xfce installed.  I tried "startx", "X", "xinit".  None are found.  I 
> > > tried Alt-F7 but get a blank screen.  Any ideas?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Lyle
> > Is xorg-x11 installed? Maybe the X server is not present. I'm thinking 
> > that you have a window manager and no server. This is probably not the 
> > case, but worth a guess.
> >
> > Jim
> I've installed the following packages:
>
>    xorg-x11-font-utils-6.8.1-12.i386.rpm
>    xorg-x11-libs-6.8.1-12.i386.rpm
>    xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL-6.8.1-12.i386.rpm
>    xorg-x11-Mesa-libGLU-6.8.1-12.i386.rpm
>    xorg-x11-twm-6.8.1-12.i386.rpm
>    xorg-x11-xauth-6.81-12.i386.rpm
>    xorg-x11-xfs-6.8.1-12.i386.rpm
>
> Are there any others that might help?  Only "libs" sounds like it is 
> critical.
>
> Thanks,
> Lyle

I have the below packages installed that relate to xorg-x11. Usually the 
updating programs (yum, up2date or apt) pull in any programs needed, 
because of dependacies for other programs.

If I recall some installation programs, it is possible to only install 
the windowmanager and not the X server. You do need either XFree86 or 
xorg-x11. The lack of deps might be because you could choose whatever X 
server version that you choose.

My listing for xorg-x11 is probably a bit more up2date. I just upgraded 
the xorg-x11 recently, while reading the mail.

Jim

 rpm -qa |grep  xorg
xorg-x11-libs-6.8.1-12.FC3.21
xorg-x11-devel-6.8.1-12.FC3.21
xorg-x11-6.8.1-12.FC3.21
fonts-xorg-ISO8859-2-100dpi-6.8.1-1
fonts-xorg-ISO8859-9-75dpi-6.8.1-1
fonts-xorg-truetype-6.8.1-1
xorg-x11-doc-6.8.1-12.FC3.21
xorg-x11-font-utils-6.8.1-12.FC3.21
xorg-x11-Mesa-libGLU-6.8.1-12.FC3.21
fonts-xorg-ISO8859-14-75dpi-6.8.1-1
fonts-xorg-ISO8859-15-100dpi-6.8.1-1
fonts-xorg-ISO8859-15-75dpi-6.8.1-1
fonts-xorg-ISO8859-14-100dpi-6.8.1-1
fonts-xorg-ISO8859-2-75dpi-6.8.1-1
xorg-x11-xauth-6.8.1-12.FC3.21
xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-6.8.1-12.FC3.21
fonts-xorg-ISO8859-9-100dpi-6.8.1-1
xorg-x11-xfs-6.8.1-12.FC3.21
fonts-xorg-base-6.8.1-1
fonts-xorg-75dpi-6.8.1-1
xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL-6.8.1-12.FC3.21
xorg-x11-xdm-6.8.1-12.FC3.21


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