Description of problem: When I boot the machine and choose Linux ( vs Windows XP ) I am prompted for my name/password. All that goes well. When I key in "startx" and then hit enter, I get the fatal server error that is in the Summary: Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): latest 9.0 release with updates of RH Linux How reproducible: boot the machine, log in and key in startx Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot machine 2. log in 3. key in startx Actual results: XIO: fatal IO error 104 ( Connection reset by peer ) on X server ":0.0" after 0 requests ( 0 known processed ) with 0 events remaining. Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. Expected results: for XWindows to come up as it always used to Additional info: I believe that you want 3 files: 1) /var/log/XFree86.0.log 2) /etc/X11/XF86Config 3) /var/log/messages. I will attach them if possible.
Created attachment 96173 [details] 1 of 3 files to be sent
Created attachment 96174 [details] 2nd of 3 files
Created attachment 96175 [details] 3rd of 3 files
I sent in the 3 attached files per the request of the message generated during the crash. Thank you. Karl Bergerson karl
The problem being reported in this bug report is a technical support request due to misconfiguration of the X server, and is not a bug being reported. You should be using the "sis" driver, not the "vesa" driver. The "vesa" driver is also unsupported by Red Hat and provided only as a convenience to users in hopes it works if all else fails. Problems encountered while using the "vesa" driver are not fixable by Red Hat, because the "vesa" driver uses the video BIOS entirely, and we can't fix broken BIOS code. Please reconfigure your X server, using: redhat-config-xfree86 --reconfig After doing that, and trying again, if you have problems and need further assistance, please join xfree86-list, or one of the other Red Hat mailing lists, or XFree86.org mailing lists and post your problem there, and someone in the community might be able to provide technical support.