Re: trouble starting X

[Marcus Brinkmann]

On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 08:21:49AM +0200, Petros Sidiropoulos wrote:
> Hello all 
> I followed excactly the instruction to install Xfree86 under the Hurd but 
> when i try to startx the system 
> crashes, no X, only a blank screen.The following is the output of 
> startx:(sorry for the size)
> Any ideas of what could be made wrong???

What are your kbd/mouse translator settings? Please show us the output of

showtrans /dev/kbd
showtrans /dev/mouse

> Fatal server error:
> failed to initialize core devices

This usually means that it couldn't open the kbd/mouse devices.

Thanks,
Marcus

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