[wplug] X respawning too fast?

[Vanco, Don]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: wplug-bounces+don.vanco=agilysys.com at wplug.org 
>[mailto:wplug-bounces+don.vanco=agilysys.com at wplug.org] On 
>Behalf Of Brian W. Snyder
>Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 12:00 PM
>To: General user list
>Subject: Re: [wplug] X respawning too fast?
>
>
>
>>Well here is the output of startkde:
>>>
>>>xsetroot:  unable to open display ''
>>>xrdb: Can't open display ''
>>>xset:  unable to open display ""
>>>xset:  unable to open display ""
>>>xset:  unable to open display ""
>>>startkde: Starting up...
>>>INIT: Id "x" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
>>>ksplash: cannot connect to X server
>>>kdeinit: Aborting. $DISPLAY is not set.
>>>Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory
>>>ksmserver: cannot connect to X server
>>>startkde: Shutting down...
>>>Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory
>>>Error: Can't contact kdeinit!
>>>startkde: Running shutdown scripts...
>>>startkde: Done.
>>
>
>I got almost the exact same error listed above on my FreeBSD 
>machine. I 
>simply ran xf86config and changed the driver for the video 
>card. It's a 
>ratty old machine with an even rattier video card (CL GD5446) 
>which, on 
>the first run of configuring X, it chose the vanilla 'vga' driver. I 
>changed it to 'cirrus' and now X works fine. If you're using 
>Fedora/RedHat I wouldn't be surprised if it just doesn't like 
>your video 
>card. I gave up on them partially because of that.

	Well, other than the fact that he _can_ run X..... (GDM and KDM
run - not XDM)  It's not his video card / driver.