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When I booted my Redhat 9.0, there was no failed
indication during the boot process but when it tried
to load the X Window server immediately thereafter, it
couldn't get through the GUI login prompt but returned
an error that X server couldn't be started. The
system prompted to load a fresh configuration but it
was still unsuccessful. Then it prompted to disable
the X server and I was able to gain access through the
console. When I type in startx or X, there was an
error and the ff. log found in /var/log/XFree86.0.log
were:
XFree86 ANSI C Emulation: 0.2
XFree86 Video Driver: 0.6
XFree86 XInput driver: 0.4
XFree86 Server Extension: 0.2
XFree86 Font Renderer: 0.4
(II) Loader running on Linux
(II) Load Module: 'bitmap"
(WW) Warning, couldn't open module bitmap
(II) UnloadModule: "bitmap"
(EE) Failed to load module "bitmap" (module does not
exist, 0)
(II) LoadModule: "pcidata"
(WW) Warning, couldn't open module pcidata
(II) UnloadModule: "pcidata"
(II) Failed to load module "pcidata" (module does not
exist, 0)
Fatal server error:
Unable to load required base modules, Exiting...
The XFree86 version is 4.3.0 (Red Hat Linux release:
4.3.0-2)
I already tried configuring the X server using the ff.
cmds.:
-XF86Setup (couldn't be found)
-XFree86 -configure (returns an error same as above)
-Xconfigurator (couldn't be found)
-xf86cfg (couldn't be found)
-xf86config (couldn't be found)
-xconf (couldn't be found)
I have also searched available solutions through
google but I couldn't find any viable solutions.
If you happen to know the workaround for this problem
without doing a re-install, pls. let me know. I am
still a Linux newbie but I found it interesting and
would explore it further to build know-how.
Distribution: Gentoo, Debian, Ubuntu, Red Hat/CentOS
Posts: 719
Rep:
Quote:
Originally posted by ppuru redhat-config-xfree86
I have never used RH's native config option. I assume they edit the same file?? Right? I have always used the xf86config program and just kind of got used to it I guess.
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