I'm trying to get my gui interface to work on red hat linux and it's just not happening. I logged in, typed startx and then it gives me a "no screens found" error. I tried to access the /var/log/XFree.0.log from the root account but it said permission denied. What am I doing wrong? Thank you in advance for helping.
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no screens found after running startx
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It most likely means your X configuration isn't properly set up. Read the documentation for your distribution to see if they have any "take a guess / autoconfigure" tools. Otherwise, you'll be writing out the config by hand (which is a great learning experience, though).
ericbrunson
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X -configure as root will "take a guess". All the distro tools are built around that command.
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