From Text login to graphical

[Greg Dougherty]

Thanks Lowell, that gets me closer to where I want to go.

The current problem is that I run it, I select my monitor, I give it a
resolution (1152 x 864 x 75Hz), 16 bits of color, and no acceleration, and it
claims everything went fine.

However, when I type "startx" it fails, telling me there is no screen.  I
checked my XF86Config file, and it has no screen.

Now what do I do?

TIA,

Greg

On 1/21/03, lowell <lowell@kc.rr.com> writes:

> The command you want is "Xconfigurator" (without the quotes) to
> write your XF86Config file, if that's what you wanted to do. To
> start the X windows system, type "startx" and X will come up running
> your default window manager (prolly KDE).
> 
> Greg Dougherty wrote:
> 
>>Ok,
>>
>>After much torture, i now have YDL 2.3 installed on my computer.  I
>>have two monitors, a ViewSonic GS815, and a ViewSonic G810.  YDL
>>doesn't know about the GS815 (which is too bad, because it's my
>>"main" monitor), but, through the magic of fiddling with cables and
>>the Monitors Control Panel, I know have YDL coming up in text mode
>>on my G810 (which was in the list of monitors when I set it up).
>>
>>So, I told YDL to use the monitor in 1152 x 8?2 x 75Hz, that being
>>the closest I could find to my normal setting of 1152 x 870 x 75 Hz.
>> I also told it to do the text login (I've had a hell of a time when
>>installing it to default to graphics).
>>
>>So, now that I have it logging me in fine, how do I get kde or gnome
>>up?  I tried logging in as root and then typing "xconfigure", that
>>didn't work.  What does work?
>>
>>TIA,
>>
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