Bug 44826 - the GUI fails to install properly and cannot be started with startx
Summary: the GUI fails to install properly and cannot be started with startx
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: anaconda
Version: 7.1
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Brent Fox
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-06-18 02:53 UTC by Need Real Name
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:33 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-07-13 15:33:39 UTC
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Description Need Real Name 2001-06-18 02:53:52 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 (Macintosh; U; PPC)

Description of problem:
I have just installed Linuz 7.1 on my new HP Pavillion desktop computer.  The installation seems to go cleanly, but when i 
restart the computer, the GUI will not work.  I use the command "startx" and encounter the following errors: " (ii) i810:driver for 
Intel i180 chipset: i810, i180-dc, i810e, i815  (ee) no devices detected", "fatal server error: no screens found",  "xio: fatal IO 
error 104 (connection reset by server) on xserver ":0.0" after zero requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining".  
Also when i look inside /var/log/XFree86.0.log it says "(ww) cannot open APM".   On the advise of  your support people I have 
tried to load the agpgart module, which was not loaded.  However, after loading agpgart, and then running Xconfigurator, the I 
get the same errors. Also when i do another "lsmod", it says that agpgart had been loaded but is unused (i don't know if that is 
significant).

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install linux
2.start up computer
3.use the command "startx"
	

Actual Results:  the error message, which i have reproduced above, is given

Expected Results:  the GUI (X windows) should have started

Additional info:

Comment 1 Brent Fox 2001-06-21 19:39:14 UTC
Can you attach your /etc/X11/XF86Config file?

Comment 2 Need Real Name 2001-07-01 20:42:21 UTC
I cannot attach any logs or files, because the gui does not work, and so the computer cannot be attached to the internet.  Also the 
screen flashes constantly with warnings.  However, I can tell that there is no directory /etc/X11/ and no file /etc/X11/XF86Config. on my 
system when I log in as root.


Comment 3 Brent Fox 2001-07-03 15:19:46 UTC
Something's not right...I don't see how you could have X Windows installed but
not have an /etc/X11/XF86Config files.  

Can you run 'rpm -q XFree86' and see if XFree86 was even installed?

Comment 4 Brent Fox 2001-07-13 15:33:34 UTC
Closing due to inactivity.  Please reopen if you have more information.


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