"Waiting for the X server to begin accepting connections..."

[masa36]

... and .. .. .. ... That's what I get when I do startx.

I'm using Debian 2.2, and everything was going fine and smooth, until I did dist-upgrade. The settings in XF86Setup are completely the same as they were before the dist-upgrade. X just doesn't work. Pon, poff and wvdial are also out of the qustion, that means that I don't have a web-connection available (on linux). Tried rebuilding the symlinks, tried everything. X just doesn't work.

So, if you have any ideas, I would be delighted to hear them. :) If not, I guess I just have to reinstall debian, or the worst option; go back to windows. :(

People; never do apt-get dist-upgrade if it isn't 100% necessary. It will mess everything up totally.


Help needed.

[n2linux]

The settings in XF86Setup are completely the same as they were before the dist-upgrade

Maybe try running xf86config again, but save your old one (you might want to look at your specific settings, etc.)

Or, maybe upgrading screwed things up a bit if you upgraded to libc2.2 ?

[masa36]

I've tried to set things differently in XF86Setup and in xf86config, no success.

I already have libc2.2.

[n2linux]

I don't know what XFree86 version you have, but try downloading via ftp.xfree86.org, version 4.0.2 base under the Linux-ix86-glibc22 directory. Download the 12 needed files, run "sh Xinstall.sh", answer those annoying questions and then try "xf86config"

Before you run startx, make sure you have the proper xserver.

-edit- also, what vid card do you have??

[ 27 February 2001: Message edited by: n2linux ]