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I don't know whether the X server is running. I am at the prompt and looking for a desktop to appear. The message on typing 'startx' is " XIO : Fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server."
Originally posted by kodai I don't know whether the X server is running. I am at the prompt and looking for a desktop to appear. The message on typing 'startx' is " XIO : Fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server."
hi there
thats i am saying that ur X server is Running!!!!!!
since u are at the graphical loging screen
now u need to get into some kind of linux desktop
like kde/gnome/fluxbox
so when u enter ur username and password at the graphical login screen then ,choose and desktop from the sesions tab at the bottom of the screen and proceed
do u get the sessions/desktop tab and other options there???????
Originally posted by kodai I don't know whether the X server is running. I am at the prompt and looking for a desktop to appear. The message on typing 'startx' is " XIO : Fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server."
It should give you some type of error above that like "No screen found" or "invalid pointing device" and that will lead you to where to look in the xorg.conf or XF86Config
ok so now gettting to this once again
when u enter ur userban and password at the start
and press ENTER
then do u see a small windows were it specifies that it is loading things,,,,,or what tyoe of command prompt u get??
does ur screen try to start the X server i.e after linux is started and beore u come to to the root prompt does the screen dissappear/appear 3-4 times i.e respawn
Hi, Masand
No, nothing happens. My system Config is : PIII 800, 128 MB SDR, 810e motherboard(Gigabyte), Samsung 14" Monitor(45Bn).
One of my friend say, during installation, it will ask for Monitor details, which I haven't seen happening in my case.
How to re-install the whole thing?
I suspect that the problem is with driver support for your video card. Is your video card integrated on your mobo? If so, do you know the exact model of the motherboard?
Had the problem been with the monitor refresh rates, then X would have tried to start and your monitor would probably have shut down because it failed to sync. Your problem is more in the line of "X doesn't start at all".
If you want to reinstall, try getting hold of Fedora Core 2 instead, since RedHat 9 is outdated. Or try a different distro altogether.
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