[H-GEN] Help - lost my X-server

[David]

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> I know precious little about how this works, being a Linux newbie (office
> friend configured it up the first time, but he's away on hols  :-( I
swapped
> XF86Config-4 and XF86Config-4.old to see if that would help, but didn't.
> When I issue startx I get a blue screen, a wait cursor, and then it drops
> back out to a command prompt. There is some error about execve and err 3?
> Not sure.

Without these error messages, there isn't much that we can do to help you.
If you can tell us what the error messages are, there might be a chance we
can help fix the problem.  Otherwise, your best bet would be try to remove
the failed libraries and go back to an old working configuration.
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Not sure how to remove the failed libraries. I'm tentative with a gui
(Windows convert) and really sketchy on the command line with this type of
stuff.

For errors, etc., after boot up and login as normal user
[david@ david]$startx
hostname: No address associated with name (probably due to some other issue)

execve failed for /etc/X11/X (errno 8)
giving up.
xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server
xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.
[david@ david]$
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> Sorry about the vagaries (and the long post). Is there some default config
> or fix that I can apply to get me back to an operational X server?

X configration is highly dependant on the graphics card and
monitor, so unlikely to get it running at any reasonable
resolution with a default config.

You might also want to take the time to read
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html and
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html.
These will help you to ask questions in such a way that we
can help you quicker.

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thanks for the addresses. I hope this info helps. I had a bit of a squizz at
my config file but I need to spend more time fiddling and reading the man
pages before I start messing with it. Would posting the monitor section
help?

thanks for the weekend time,
David
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