06-12-2002
RedHat
Hi all,
I'm installing RedHat 7.0 on a laptop. As it's a dual boot with win2k I make a boot sector instead of using the MBR. After the install I mark the boot sector active in windows then I can boot into Linux.
First question. When I make the boot sector active it deletes the swap partition. Why the hell does it do this? And how can I fix this?
Second question. With it being RH 7.0 I need to update the XFree86 server to get the graphic drivers I need. So I'll run a XFree84 4.0.2 install and it'll all run fine. I do this to get a xinitrc.RH6 file in the /etc/X11/xinitrc directory (need this file to do final config of graphics). Then I install the lastest version XFree86 4.2.0, once agian all runs fine.
After the install of 4.2.0 I run Xconfigurator get the basic graphics working. Then I configure the XF86config-4 file (/etc/X11) tp setup the corrcet drivers and resolution. This all works fine.
Then I move to directory /etc/X11/xinitrc and cp the xinitrc.RH6 over the top of the old xinitrc file. Yep still all working fine.
Now this is where I get lost.
Then from the command line I type startx. This should start Gnome, correct? Well no it doesn't instead it goes into some weird ass environment. Kinda like a old SunOS one. It's all weird. I can still do stuff but ti's not what I want.
It's like it can't find Gnome at all. But then if I got back and install XFree86 4.0.2 it'll find Gnome. I just want to know what do I have to do to make it see Gnome?
Last question. When it does load Gnome (which I can get it to sometimes but forget how I do it, and it's not a permenat thing) it doesn't have any letters on the icons or at teh top of a window. The font turns into little boxs? Don't ask why or how I'm lost and I don't know why or how. The typing font in a console window is fine but icon font or font anywhere else is a damn little box.
Thanks in advanced for anyone who can help me on those questions.
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LEARN ABOUT OPENDARWIN
startx
STARTX(1) General Commands Manual STARTX(1)
NAME
startx - initialize an X session
SYNOPSIS
startx [ [ client ] options ... ] [ -- [ server ] [ display ] options ... ]
DESCRIPTION
The startx script is a front end to xinit(1) that provides a somewhat nicer user interface for running a single session of the X Window
System. It is often run with no arguments.
Arguments immediately following the startx command are used to start a client in the same manner as xinit(1). The special argument '--'
marks the end of client arguments and the beginning of server options. It may be convenient to specify server options with startx to
change on a per-session basis the default color depth, the server's notion of the number of dots-per-inch the display device presents, or
take advantage of a different server layout, as permitted by the Xorg(1) server and specified in the xorg.conf(5) configuration. Some
examples of specifying server arguments follow; consult the manual page for your X server to determine which arguments are legal.
startx -- -depth 16
startx -- -dpi 100
startx -- -layout Multihead
To determine the client to run, startx first looks for a file called .xinitrc in the user's home directory. If that is not found, it uses
the file xinitrc in the xinit library directory. If command line client options are given, they override this behavior and revert to the
xinit(1) behavior. To determine the server to run, startx first looks for a file called .xserverrc in the user's home directory. If that
is not found, it uses the file xserverrc in the xinit library directory. If command line server options are given, they override this
behavior and revert to the xinit(1) behavior. Users rarely need to provide a .xserverrc file. See the xinit(1) manual page for more
details on the arguments.
The system-wide xinitrc and xserverrc files are found in the /etc/X11/xinit directory.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
DISPLAY This variable gets set to the name of the display to which clients should connect. Note that this gets set, not
read.
XAUTHORITY This variable, if not already defined, gets set to $(HOME)/.Xauthority. This is to prevent the X server, if not
given the -auth argument, from automatically setting up insecure host-based authentication for the local host.
See the Xserver(1) and Xsecurity(7) manual pages for more information on X client/server authentication.
FILES
$(HOME)/.xinitrc Client to run. Typically a shell script which runs many programs in the background.
$(HOME)/.xserverrc Server to run. The default is X.
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc Client to run if the user has no .xinitrc file.
/etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc Server to run if the user has no .xserverrc file.
SEE ALSO
xinit(1), X(7), Xserver(1), Xorg(1), xorg.conf(5)
X Version 11 xinit 1.3.2 STARTX(1)