Re: XF86Config for ATI Radeon 9000

From: Kent West (westk_at_acu.edu)
Date: 12/16/03

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    Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote:

    >Okay, so after some googling and help I've installed alien, discover,
    >xserver-common and x-window-system-core, used apt pinning to get XFree86
    >4.3 and re-ran xf86config
    >
    >'startx' still fails as does 'kdm'
    >
    >What can I do?
    >
    >
    >
    >
    As long as startx fails (X fails to start), kdm will fail.

    Run "startx 2>errorlog.txt" and then look in errorlog.txt for any lines
    that begin with (EE). That's most likely the culprit. 

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Kent
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