Re: GUI configuration from text mode = how?

["John Thompson" <john thompson attglobal net>]

On Sun, 04 Jun 2000 01:30:14 -0400, Miroslav Skoric wrote:

>During the RH 6.1 setup, at the point of recognizing a video card it
>says something like 'autoprobe result: unable to detect video card'. It
>also says something like: '...return to /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_VGA16'
>because of unknown card or so. It also skip 'test this configuration'
>during the setup. After the whole installation is finished, when I try
>either startx or xinit it says:
>
>execve failed for /etc/X11/X  (errno 2)
>_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 giving up.
>xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server
>xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.
>
>If try to set it up with linuxconf, it says that graphical mode is not
>configured yet.
>
>Well, now I wonder why it doesn't use a generic vga card or so, because
>it actually uses graphical setup mode during the installation. Beside
>that, an old version of Caldera 1.2 (1998) made it running in graphical
>mode, but I gave it up because it was obsolette from other reasons.

Have you tried skipping the autoprobe step and just manually selecting the
generic SVGA server?



John (john thompson attglobal net)