[H-GEN] X Server error message

[Christopher Biggs]

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Christopher & Lisa LeMoyne <dragonthrone at iname.com> moved upon the face of the 'Net and spake thusly:
> Distribution : RedHat 6.1
> Machine : Pentium 166, Baby AT mb, 64MB SDRAM
> Video card : WD/Paradise 90c31 chipset, 1MB VRAM, ISA
> Monitor : Proview 765, 17", 30-70kHz horiz, 50-120kHz vert, 1280x1024 @
> 56-85Hz NI
> 
> Don't ask me why there's an ISA card in a Pentium, I just had a quiet chuckle.
> 
For non-games use, it's unlikely to matter.  I dunno, kids these days... :-)

<rant>
I used to run X on a hercules mono monitor in 4meg of ram... (and I'm
*not* kidding).
</rant>

> First, I attempted to start X to test it straight away, and received the
> following error message:
> 
> #execve failed for /etc/X11/X (errno 2)
> 
There you go.  errno 2 is "no such file or directory".

/etc/X11/X is probably a dangling symlink

cjb

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