Messages in this thread |  | | | From | "Alan Olsen" <> | | Date | Fri, 30 Oct 1998 13:23:14 -0800 | | Subject | Re: Problems with X and SB under 2.1.126 |
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On Oct 30, 2:50pm, James King wrote: > Subject: Problems with X and SB under 2.1.126 > Hey all, forgive me if this has already been answered and I simply > missed it. > > I'm running the 2.1.126 kernel, with no patches (except the one in > acct.c that fixed the typo...;), and now nothing under X works. I get > the xdm root window up, but the stderr keeps spitting out "Socket() > failed" and "can't open socket for local", or somthing to that effect > (please forgive me, I'm at work right now, far from my computer). Either > way, no X clients (most importantly, the KDE display manager so I can > login) come up. Any ideas as to what's wrong? > > Also, I'm running a Packard Bell POS (I know...but it was cheap and I'm > a college student.) Either way, it has a "SoundBlaster Compatible" sound > card. Well, it isn't SB-compatible. It's PnP. I've tried using the > various PnP tools that came with RH5.1...no joy. Any ideas?
What version of gcc are you using? I have seen this behaviour with gcc 2.8.x. gcc 2.7.x and before work fine, but the 2.8.x versions seem to do something that X just does not like.
-- Alan Olsen
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