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[CLUG] any suggestions?

[CLUG] any suggestions?

Donncha O Caoimh donncha.ocaoimh at tradesignals.com
Fri Jul 7 08:58:20 IST 2000


jgwebmaster at netdevelop.net wrote:
> 
> When trying (again) to setup X using XF86Setup, I got this error message
> 
> "The program is running on a different virtual terminal.
> 
>   Please switch fo the correct virtual terminal"

Try press ALT-F7

> 
> Could someone tell me what that actually means? Also, the G200 is trying to connect to the SVGA server, I just want to check that this is the right one.
> I ran X -probeonly 2> out and looked at the out file, as suggested, but being new to this kind of thing I don't really know what I'm looking for.

What you're looking for is the name of your chipset and manufacturer
(G200, Matrox) to appear along with the correct amount of RAM. and of
course any error message. Error messages from the X server have a well
defined prefix, I just can't remember the definition at this time..

Donncha.




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