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- From: dejesus@avalon.nwc.navy.mil (Francisco X DeJesus)
- Subject: Re: Help Problems to install X-Windows
- Message-ID: <C1J2Iv.IvA@avalon.nwc.navy.mil>
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- Organization: Science Applications International Corp.
- References: <1k6d4lINNu3@news.uni-paderborn.de>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 19:37:43 GMT
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- In article <1k6d4lINNu3@news.uni-paderborn.de> lemgo@uni-paderborn.de (Kai Benndorf) writes:
- >Keywords:
- >Hello Linux Users,
- >
- >I have some Problems to get the X-Windows running. I have a 386DX40 PC with 8MB
- >RAM and a NONAME ET 4000 Card with 1MB RAM. I have installed the latest SLS
- >Distribution of Linux (0.99p2). I think i have configured the Xconfig file
- >right, because the monitor seems to synchronisize well. But after i start
- >startx i get the following Error Message:
- [...]
- >Fatal server error:
- > failed to initialize core devices
- [...]
- >Microsoft "/dev/ttys0"
-
- Change that to /dev/ttyS0 (capital "S"). I think they changed this in .99p2.
- After that, it's a matter of some tweking to get your display to look right.
-
- Good luck...
- --
- Francisco X DeJesus ----- S A I C ----- dejesus@chinalake.navy.mil
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