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Can't use X

Asked by ***mike420***

I have had Ubuntu for a little over a month and i enjoy what i have saw so far. For some reason though, I cant seem to get the X display working. I have put *almost* too many hours into trying to figure it out. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Mike Bessette

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Andrew Davis (papyromancer) said : 		#1

Could you post some of the error messages you have encountered while trying to run X, and some general information about your video card and display would be cool.

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***mike420*** (mike420) said : 		#2

I recieve a message saying that it can't connect to the X server. I am using a Trio S3 64 video card and an AcerView-11D display. I can't see it being a hardware problem as much as a software problem. If anyone has had this problem can you PLEASE give me suggestions as to how you fixed it.

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Andrew Davis (papyromancer) said : 		#3

Have you tried these solutions from the wiki?

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FixVideoResolutionHowto

I may be way off with that diagnosis. If you're starting X from the command line try adding "> ~/Xerrorlog.txt" to the end of the startx command and post the contents of the file ~/Xerrorlog.txt on this page so we can see what errors are happening.

Have you changed your window manager or modified the standard ubuntu installation?

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VinceLe (legoll) said : 		#4

You can also try to look for error messages in /var/log/Xorg.0.log
try to fix yourself or come back with extracts from this file

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