Unable to start X

[old dog]

Hi all:

Among other things, I'm running Caldera edesktop 2.4 on my Micron system at work. Up until July 27, all was well. Since then, I have been unable to start X. Since much of this distro's use is based upon access thru X, it's been tough. Here's the errors I've found (I hope). I had to transcribe them by hand...

Fatal server error:
(--) SVGA): Failed to fetch any BIOS modes

X connection to : 0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown)

-X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect errno = 111
* this line repeats several times, then the message is switching to runlevel 3

If anyone has any suggestions on what to do -
including a way to capture and transfer all the error messages needed to solve this (other than by hand), I would greatly appreciate it. PS - embarrasing as it is, I had to use a MicroSlime OS to get here today, so help at transferring the messages to that OS may help too...

[WilliamWallace]

this is a common error, search google for the exact error....youll find it.

[old dog]

Thanks, I searched on the various errors and found - not much...

The "...errno=111" and "...explicit kill..." are apparently generic failure messages, applying to almost all failures.

The "failed to fetch any BIOS modes" error had 2 messages, only one in english (in the entire Google search!)

That message discussed default depth being too high for the video card. I don't recall changing the bit depth, but I can run the
X config and try setting the depths a bit conservative.

Does this make sense?

[old dog]

Yay! Success!

Apparently I did set the bit depth wrong.
As my memory NOW serves, I had tried to get some additional display resolutions (ie - larger images for my weak eyes). I must have set one that didn't work as default. By going into XF86Setup (Mode Selection) from the console and setting the bpp to 16 bits, I was able to boot right back up into my window manager.

Thanks again for the Google suggestion...
Funny, I use it to search for everything else in my little on-line world...Who woulda thought entering error codes would work too.
Only one english response, but it was the right one. :D