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- From: karl@NeoSoft.com (Karl Lehenbauer)
- Subject: Re: [XFree86] Help needed badly
- Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 04:45:32 GMT
- Message-ID: <By5Jvx.8tI@NeoSoft.com>
- References: <1992Nov22.203129.17299@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov22.203129.17299@ultb.isc.rit.edu> sxx4519@ultb.isc.rit.edu (S.X. Xue) writes:
- >A suggestion I
- >would give here is to redirect the errors to a file by
- > xinit >& err;sync
-
- >then you will you some error messages that you don't see on the screen by
- >catting the file "err." In my case, I found out the permission of my mouse
- >port (com1) and the font path were not set properly.
-
- Yes, redirecting xinit is essential to figuring out problems.
-
- I'd like to point out, too, that even if you're not getting your card
- switched into graphics code, you won't see xinit's error output unless
- you save it off.
-
- In my case it couldn't find the entry in the modem DB. Now we're up
- with a Farenheit 1280!
-
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