topic Xwindow on console does not display after installing SLES-11 OS in Operating System - Linux

Xwindow on console does not display after installing SLES-11 OS

Niranjan Das — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 00:14:55 GMT

Hi,
I have installed SLES-11 SP1 enterprise edition on DL385 HP Proliant server. It has 6G installed memory. Server is running fine. Sad part is i dont get the Xwindow system when connect to console. If i press CTRL+ALT+F1 or F2 i do get the cli console. But Xwindow system has not displayed anything. Please help, how i can make xwindow system work. I am novice Linux user so little bit more explanation would be helpful. I tried changing the settings in BIOS but that did not help.
Thanks,
Niranjan

Re: Xwindow on console does not display after installing SLES-11 OS

kemo — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 09:31:04 GMT

This might happen if the X display configuration has set the HorizSync and VertRefresh values incorrectly.
please check these values according to your monitor type and settings.

Re: Xwindow on console does not display after installing SLES-11 OS

kemo — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 09:32:33 GMT

check xorg.conf for these values, also check the resolution mode

Modes "1024x768" "1024x600" "800x600" "768x576" "640x480"

thanks
kamal

Re: Xwindow on console does not display after installing SLES-11 OS

Niranjan Das — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 19:48:26 GMT

Thanks Kemo for the reply.

Where do i check for the HorizSync and VertRefresh values ? I mean in which file or dir ?

Thanks

Re: Xwindow on console does not display after installing SLES-11 OS

Niranjan Das — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 22:50:06 GMT

Can you please let me know where is the location of xorg.conf file also check the resolution mode. What is correct resolution mode ?

thanks,
Niranjan

Re: Xwindow on console does not display after installing SLES-11 OS

Alan_152 — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 15:43:55 GMT

rename the xorg.conf file to xorg.conf.bak and reboot. That usually reconfigures the system,

Re: Xwindow on console does not display after installing SLES-11 OS

Lucifer Megacruel — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 09:44:09 GMT

HI Niranjan,

That file is usually there is /etc/X11
or in /usr/share/local/etc/X11 .

There are lot of other ways other depending upon the distribution to configure the X. I forgot the name of those scripts.

You can do an Xorg -configure to generate a new config file for you.

See : http://www.x.org/archive/X11R6.8.1/doc/xorg.conf.5.html

Useful HOW-TO's :
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/XFree86-HOWTO/index.html

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/XWindow-User-HOWTO/index.html

Truly Evil
Lucifer Megacruel