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Re: startx command puts my system to sleep

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Hultquist)
Sun Nov 3 12:23:19 1996

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In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 04 Nov 1996 00:52:43 +0900."
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Date: Sun, 03 Nov 1996 11:20:48 -0700
From: Steve Hultquist <ssh@wwsi.com>
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>>>>> "Lance" == Lance Cummings <lance@iac.co.jp> writes:

 Lance> I'm a complete newbie, and I'm trying to start X windows.  The
 Lance> command "startx" runs a few quick lines of text by on the screen
 Lance> too fast to read, then blanks out the display.  After about 30
 Lance> seconds of hard disk thrashing, the monitor goes into standby
 Lance> mode.

Did you run Xconfigure to properly configure your display adapter and
monitor?  It sounds like you didn't...

ssh


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