I have just installed Vector Linux 2.5. (this one's install was cooler than the others I tried.) When I type startx after login I receive the following message:

(using VT number 7)

Could not find config file!
- Tried:
/root/XF86Config
/etc/XF86Config
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config.vector
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config

Fatal server error:
No config file found!


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XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

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How do I make a configuration file and/or am I able to?

Have you tried running XF86config or Xconfigurator? I don't know if either of those will help, but give it a try and see what happens. Good luck.

Browse directories you mentioned in your post and and look for files with name similar to XF86Config or XF86Config-4. If you can find one, copy it with name XF86Config and then try to run startx again.

actually the configurator you would most likely need to run is xf86config instead of XF86config to configure X, Linux is case sensitive. And unless its based off of Redhat and has the Xconfigurator utility installed, that won't work.

Usually by default the XF86Config file is in the /etc/X11 directory. At times it won't be present until X is configured cause after that it will then be created. I suggest first trying to reconfigure it with the xf86config command, of course you need to be logged in as root as well to run.

Vector linux's site says:

XF86Setup is to setup X-Windows
xf86config is an alternative to XF86Setup

true but as trickykid said

to run the setup use xf86config or the (equivalent), but the actual config file that contains the settings that your looking for is /etc/X11/XF86Config

since you are looking in /etc then just make a link

ln -s /etc/X11/XF86Config /etc/XF86Config


a link is actually much better than a copy. If you copy it then running any of the x setup utilities or even a manual edit would need to be done in all copies.


---Tulsa, OK ---

Also look at your X log file and make sure your not using XF86Config-4 if you are then just link to it

ls -s /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 /etc/XF86Config



--- Tulsa, OK ---

Was looking around Vector's site again and found out you use the program Sax to configure X window.

Thanks everyone!!

I have used what you (plural) have said; however, I now have a new problem. When I start the GUI I have no REAL control over the mouse pointer. When I move the mouse, the pointer randomly moves across the top of the screen but (just like a magnet) moves immediatly back the top left of the screen when I reframe from moveing the mouse. Any ideas?

I had something like that with debian. You can try to disable gpm. That fixed it for me with debian.

What is gpm?

Hey, DavidPhillips, where can I get Davix?

Good one! As far as i understand it gpm supplies the driver to use the mouse in console. If you don't have it installed it can't screw it up. Just check in your xf86config file. Let me know if you want me to email the info's i got about it to you.

Please send that e-mail.

What is this:

# When using XQUEUE, comment out the above two lines, and uncomment
# the following line.

# Protocol "Xqueue"