[thelist] x-windows

Dean Mah dsmah at home.com
Thu Jun 7 15:47:36 CDT 2001


You may also want to make sure that you have set up your local
loopback.  Type '/sbin/ifconfig' (or wherever your ifconfig sits) and
make sure that you have an entry for 'lo'.

Dean


Daniel J. Cody writes:
> 
> Malcolm - 
> 
> Make sure xfs is started first. Its the X Font Server, and you'll need
> it to run X. If you're running redhat, /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs start then
> try running X
> 
> If that doesn't work, run through the X setup again using Xconfigurator
> of xf86config
> 
> If you didn't get the right 'server'(think of an X server as your video
> card driver), insert your CD, find the correct package and install it.
> 
> If you need help with any of that, just shout and include more detailed
> information :)
> 
> <tip type="Linux HTML editors">
> 
> If you're new to Linux and looking for an editor that has syntax
> highlighting and support for most development languages out there, check
> out Bluefish from
> http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/
> 
> </tip>
> 
> .djc.
> 
> "McAtee, Malcolm" wrote:
> > 
> > I aqpologize upfront  for the newbie questions -
> > 
> > I bit the bullet and went for the Linux install which went pretty well
> > actually----
> > I seem unable to start up x-windows however.
> > I went back through the install to make sure that I have added this package.
> > 
> > I receive error # 111 (connection refused)
> > And error #3 (no such service)
> > 
> > It would seem from these errors that the package was not loaded -is this
> > correct??




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