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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!uunet!psgrain!hippo!ccml From: ccml@hippo.ru.ac.za (Mike Lawrie) Subject: Re: [X386] xdm won't start display :0 Message-ID: <1992Oct3.164844.5173@hippo.ru.ac.za> Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa References: <1992Oct2.084609.1@max.u.washington.edu> Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 16:48:44 GMT Lines: 28 In <1992Oct2.084609.1@max.u.washington.edu> anything@max.u.washington.edu writes: >when I start xdm from root I get a lot of disk activity and nothing else. >upon reading my /usr/X386/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-errors I find: >X386 Version 1.2E 1.0.2a / X Window System >(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 5000) >Fatal server error: >no screens found >error (pid 1064): IO Error in XOpenDisplay >error (pid 1062): Display :0 cannot be opened I had a problem like this - then x386install appeared on agate. This traced my problem by doing a grep -s 'pc-xmode' /386bsd and reported that my kernel did not have X386 support. My slipup was to modify the Makefile in the .../compile/MY.SYSTEM directory, and not in the ..../conf/MY.SYSTEM file. There are still many other pitfalls awaiting you, but persist, it is well worth it. Mike -- Mike Lawrie <ccml@hippo.ru.ac.za> Director, Computing Services ph +27 461 22023 x 279 Rhodes University, Drostdy Rd fx +27 461 25049 Grahamstown 6140, South Africa