Setting up X and CDE Login..

[Vasu_1]

Hi all,

We have an HP 9000 box running HP-UX 11.0. When the box came, it was missing a video card and we chose the serial port console and installed the OS and other software. We have got the video card now but can't get X to work. I tried logging in via the terminal mode and typed startx but it comes up only in a small area. I had two questions:

1. How do I get the GUI based login window to come up automatically when the system boots.

2. How do I get X to use all the space on the monitor.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

[Animesh Chakraborty · Accepted solution]

Hi,
First thing to check
/etc/inittab file
for this line
vue :4:respawn:/usr/vue/bin/vuerc

if it is off make it respawn.

[T G Manikandan]

Just do a

/usr/dt/bin/dtconfig -e

to enable the CDE.

Just do a
/sbin/init.d/dtlogin.rc start

If it does not work then



Run /usr/contrib/bin/X11/dr_dt.
check for the error messages in /var/dt/Xerrors
Check the error log $HOME/.dt/errorlog

Also make sure that nslookup works.

[Alex Glennie]

OK first thing ensure you have a graphics capable monitor not a console attached to the graphics card.

Ensure the card is recognised by ioscan and the Graph3 driver etc are in your kernel.

To create the appropriate graphics device files uses insf -evd framebuf.

next ensure the CDE filesets are installed and the dtlogin process is running.

If all that checks out the most likely cause is the file /etc/dt/config/Xservers exists but the last line of the file has a # at the begiining ... ie # local local@console etc... remove it or if this file is missing copy it from /usr/dt/config/Xservers and ensure there's no comment.

Drop your run-level to 2 then back to 3 what do you see. If the above fails check ->

/var/dt/Xerrors and describe what you do see on the graphics console ?

ps VUE is unlikely to run on hpux 11.00

[Vasu_1]

Thank you all for your help and prompt responses. This was a customer problem and I believe they fixed it themselves by editing one of the init scripts.

[Anil C. Sedha]

Hi Vasu,

All these guys above tried to help you.

It would be really a nice gesture from your side to assign points to them for taking time to help you.

It's up to us to share knowledge and appreciate it.

Regards,
Anil

[Vasu_1]

Anil,

The reason I didn't assign points initially was because I could not try any of the suggestions - I don't have access to the machine with the problem now and the people who reported the problem to me are happy now. In any case, I've assigned equal (max) points to all. I value these forums greatly. In fact, I've solved many problems by searching in forums like this.