From Text login to graphical

[David Merwin]

You might be looking in the wrong place. did you try XF86Config-4?
Those are your used settings.

David Merwin

Greg Dougherty wrote:

>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:
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>>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:
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>>>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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