startx prints to stderr and exits:
xauth: creating new authority file /root/.serverauth.4241
X.Org X Server 1.5.3
Release Date: 5 November 2008
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.18-92.1.10.el5 x86_64
Current Operating System: Linux localhost.localdomain
2.6.27.5-117.fc10.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Nov 18 11:58:53 EST 2008 x86_64
Build Date: 16 November 2008 08:28:40PM
Build ID: xorg-x11-server 1.5.3-5.fc10
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Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Wed Dec 24 22:49:24 2008
(EE) Unable to locate/open config file
New driver is "nv"
(==) Using default built-in configuration (30 lines)
(EE) open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory
(EE) No devices detected.
Fatal server error:
no screens found
giving up.
xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server
xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.
This computer is a HP Pavilion dv2000. The video board is NVIDIA
MCP67M. The screen resolution is 1280x800. It is a generic PnP
Monitor.
I'm not too worried, as I downloaded the CD to install on another
different computer. I was just trying to preview it.
You may need to run with the vesa driver. I'm not familiar with running
the live CD but you may need to specify the vesa driver at boot.
With a Compaq Presario F700, it does not work with either the nv or
nouveau driver so the vesa needed used. I now run the binary nvidia
driver which works relatively decent, but the vesa driver let me get the
GUI running initially.
Jim
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Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the
earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his
children? Tecumseh, (Shawnee)