Also, look in /var/log/Xorg.0.log and look for any error messages.

On 8/14/06, Donn <dlshumway@gmail.com> wrote:
From a Terminal, run:
lsmod
and reply with output.


On 8/14/06, joe <joe@tlnf.com> wrote:
.
How to fix "X" config on a new Mandriva 2006 installation?

I just did this new installation and it boots up to the command line
okay, but GUI does not work.  When I tried 'startx' from the command
line, I got these messages:

   xauth: creating new authority file /root/.serveauth.4063
   execv3 failed for /etc/X11/X (errno2)
   xinit: Server error.

# uname -a ... gives this result:
   Linux localhost 2.6.12-12mdk #1 Fri Sep 9 18:15:22 CEST 2005 i686 AMD
   Athlon(TM) XP 2600+ unknown GNU/Linux

I ran XFdrake and saw this:
   Graphic card:  S3 86C375 (ViRGE/DX)
   Monitor:       Flat panel 1280x1024
   Resolution:    1152x864 16bpp
   Test           (ran this test and the display looked fine)

A search for installed "X" configuration files produced this list:
   libxorg-x11-6.9-1.cvs20050915.2mdk
   libxorg-x11-devel-6.9-1.cvs20050915.2mdk
   xorg-x11-xfs-6.9-1.cvs20050915.2mdk
   xorg-x11-75dpi-fonts-6.9-1.cvs20050915.2mdk
   xorg-x11-server-6.9-1.cvs20050915.2mdk
   xorg-x11-xauth-6.9-1.cvs20050915.2mdk
   xorg-x11-6.9-1.cvs20050915.2mdk

The boot directory contains the following:
-rw-r--r--  1608520 Sep  9  2005 vmlinuz-2.6.12-12mdk
-rw-r--r--    71299 Sep  9  2005 config-2.6.12-12mdk
-rw-r--r--   639316 Sep  9  2005 System.map-2.6.12-12mdk
-rw-r--r--   254766 Sep 12  2005 message-graphic
drwx------    12288 Aug 11 12:50 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x     1024 Aug 11 13:07 grub
lrwxrwxrwx       20 Aug 11 13:23 vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-2.6.12-12mdk
lrwxrwxrwx       23 Aug 11 13:23 initrd.img -> initrd-2.6.12-12mdk.img
-rw-r--r--   115686 Aug 11 13:23 initrd-2.6.12-12mdk.img
-rw-r--r--      256 Aug 11 13:23 us.klt
-rw-r--r--      116 Aug 11 13:23 message-text
-rw-r--r--      512 Aug 11 13:23 boot.0300
lrwxrwxrwx       23 Aug 11 14:25 System.map -> System.map-2.6.12-12mdk
-rw-r--r--      695 Aug 11 14:26 kernel.h-2.6.12-12mdk
lrwxrwxrwx       15 Aug 11 14:34 message -> message-graphic
-rw-------   308224 Aug 11 14:34 map
lrwxrwxrwx       19 Aug 11 21:27 config -> config-2.6.12-12mdk
lrwxrwxrwx       27 Aug 11 21:27 kernel.h -> /boot/kernel.h-2.6.12-12mdk

The exact same installation worked fine on my previous Mandriva
installation (that apparently has a damaged hard disk).

joe@actionline.com


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