Booting X-Windows

[jsaylor at mit.edu (John Saylor)]

Hi

At 09:11 4/26/97 -0400, Ron Levenson wrote:
[x]
>Problem:
>Linux works fine, but can't get X to boot. Configured with MetroX,
>selecting Diamond Stealth 64 PCI driver, trying various resolutions, but
>monitor goes blank, and its on/off light goes from green to orange! 
>
>Please Help - I'm desperate for X.

Oh don't be- you can do almost everything from the command line anyway ...

One good X troubleshooting method that I have often used is to start up
emacs, run M-x shell to get the unix prompt, then try to startx. This way,
all the stuff that X tells you about why it's working [or not] is saved in
an emacs buffer that you can review and hopefully solve the problem.

Good luck!
--
John Saylor [from the home office]