starcraft

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Fri Oct 5 14:35:57 UTC 2007


On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 10:06:07AM -0400, Chris Aitken wrote:
> I forgot a step here:
> 3 (a).  If I let linux try all the modes, I get the following message:
> The display server has been shut down about 6 times in the last 90 
> seconds. It is likely that something bad is going on. Waiting for 2 
> minutes before trying again on display :0

You probably speficied a mode it doesn't know (1280x800 is NOT a
standard mode so not all X servers can do it).  If you have something
invalid, then X won't start.  The log in /var/log/X...log should have
some explanation of why it wouldn't start.

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