[olug] reinstall

[Mike McNally]

Sounds like your xf86 setup is not right.  Run xf86config to fix it (if
I'm 
right).  When you run xf86config it always sets the default color depth
to 8.
So hand edit the file adding the line DefaultColorDepth 16 in the
section screen.

mike


mesc wrote:
> 
> I've just reinstalled  linux and it usually goes pretty smooth but this
> time I have  a couple problems,my first problem is it  won't  let me
> startx as user,it blinks like  its loading X windows  then it reverts
> back to the console.I  forgot to  copy the error msg so I could  read it
> in windows,next time I'm in  linux I'll do that.Problem # 2 is my
> bastille file is corrupt so I connected to the `net to dl it  but my
> browser wouldn't go to bastile's  home page or anywhere else for that
> matter,it just gave said that page cannot be found.I checked my
> resolv.conf file and it looked  fine,are there any other files I might
> be overlooking that I might be overlooking?
> 
>             Thank you,Gary Martin
> 
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