On Mon, 2008-05-26 at 16:20 +0000, Beartooth wrote: > On Mon, 26 May 2008 11:05:16 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > On Mon, 2008-05-26 at 15:17 +0000, Beartooth wrote: > >> On Sun, 25 May 2008 21:21:23 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: [....] > >> > This has been said before, but it's worth repeating: in F9 it's often > >> > better simply to not have an xorg.conf file at all and let the driver > >> > work it out for itself. > >> > >> Then thank you for saying it again; it's news to me. > >> > >> What's the best way to go about not having it? Simply go to /etc/ > >> X11 and rename it something like NOTxorg.conf? Use an rm command? > >> Comment out something that points to it somewhere? Or what? > > > > Just move it to one side and restart X. > > I renamed it to NOTxorg.conf, which is what I presume you mean; > tried startx, unsuccessfully; exited back to user, and tried startx, > again unsuccessfully; rebooted; and got very different error messages > during boot up from those before. So I logged in as user, and tried > startx another time, again getting very different error messages -- > including one that seemed to be saying X was running but illegal to > connect to! > > Here are some fairly copious excerpts, omitting long strings > especially hard to scribble and type from. (But I'll go back and slog > through those too if they help.) > > ============================================= > startx > xauth: creating new authority file ... > .... SocketCreateListener() failed > .... server already running > > Fatal server error: > Cannot establish any listening sockets -- make sure an X server isn't > already running > > giving up > xinit: connection refused (errno 11): unable to connect to X server > xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error > ================================================ > > You see why I say *seems* to mean -- parts of that look to be > saying X is running, and parts that it's not, any yet other parts that I > should check -- somehow ... > > Otoh, my hunch says this is progress, or at least gets us off > ground zero. So what next? pgrep -fl X will tell you if an X server is running. Rebooting will make sure to get rid of it. Alternatively, do "init 3; init 5" from a console. If it still doesn't work, check for errors (lines marked EE) in /var/log/Xorg.0.log. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
