Installing X

[mcmanus at ducksong.com (Patrick R. McManus)]

did you run Xconfigurator?

[Drew Taylor: Fri, May 03, 2002 at 01:27:42AM -0400]
> Hi again,
> 
> I have a RH 7.1 box that I did not install X on due to memory limitations 
> at the time. Since I now have more memory, I'd like to run X. So I 
> installed the binary distribution of XFree86 4.2.0. But it won't startup w/ 
> the usual startx. I can briefly see something on the screen, but after a 
> couple of seconds the monitor goes into standby mode. I haven't had a 
> chance to try older versions yet.
> 
> Is there a way I can run the RH install utility and install JUST X? The 
> system is running successfully, so I don't want to upgrade or reinstall.
> 
> Drew
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