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Old 11-01-2004, 02:53 AM   #1
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I've completely stuffed up X -- help!


Hi,

I was trying to get a package up and running and looking for the failed dependencies it listed to me, in the end I just gave up and i'm using wine to emulate a windows proggy which seems to be workin fine on my box.

Problem is, I think one of the packages I installed was 'XFree86' or something along those lines. I know that Slack10.0 uses X.org or something else like that (correct me if I'm wrong), but I mustn't have been paying much attention as I installed that package.

Now my X won't start -- keeps giving me some error saying no screens detected or something like that. How can I get rid of this problem and get my KDE back up and runnin?
 
Old 11-01-2004, 05:07 AM   #2
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I am not an expert on this, but here is what I show for X on my Slack 10 machine. I got this with 'ls /var/log/packages/x*

x11-6.7.0-i486-4
x11-devel-6.7.0-i486-4
x11-docs-6.7.0-noarch-1
x11-docs-html-6.7.0-noarch-1
x11-fonts-100dpi-6.7.0-noarch-1
x11-fonts-cyrillic-6.7.0-noarch-1
x11-fonts-misc-6.7.0-noarch-1
x11-fonts-scale-6.7.0-noarch-1
x11-xnest-6.7.0-i486-1
x11-xprt-6.7.0-i486-1
x11-xvfb-6.7.0-i486-1

Look there to see if you have anything with xf86 at the beginning or xfree86 or something like that. That would likely be the package you want to remove. Then you should be able to use 'removepkg' to get rid of it.

I think that when you installed XFree86, it needed to have a configuration done. Maybe when you get rid of it, X.org will then work. The configuration file for X.org is /etc/X11/xorg.conf and should still be in place, I would think.

Anita
 
Old 11-01-2004, 10:04 AM   #3
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in command line type

Code:
pkgtool
select "remove installed packages"
it will look thru everything you have installed and give a menu to choose from.
select the Xfree you put in..........Xfree and Xorg stuff are causing conflicts.....so one of them needs to go..........

YOU can use both XFree and Xorg, but you need to set them up so they don't
interact with each other...........and doing this just comes from have more
experience with Slack!!!
 
  


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