[Debian-eeepc-devel] problem starting X on EeePC 901

[Németh Márton]

Márton Németh wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I stared to install Debian on an EeePC 901 using the custom EeePC installer
> from http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/HowTo/Install#head-ef5d38f1b349f697fbdc54de64e3e070b6e2144c
> 
> My system can access the network and boots correctly, but I cannot start the
> X with "startx" command. The graphic screen appears for 1 second then disappears
> and the following error messages are shown:
> 
>> [config/hal] couldn't initialise context: (null) ((null))
>>
>> waiting for X server to shut down .FreeFontPath: FPE "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
>>  refcount is 2, should be 1; fixing.
> 
> I couldn't find any information on this on the following pages
>   - http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/Model/901
>   - http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/HowTo/Configure#head-15f08cc2a92c77c1fbbecf23b20c03f179def73a

I found the reason: when I started X with the command "X" then it started. This
means that "xterm" was not installed, so "startx" could not start it and closed
the X server.

However, after installing "xterm" the error message
"[config/hal] couldn't initialise context: (null) ((null))" is still at the
last line of the /var/log/Xorg.0.log

Regards,

	Márton Németh

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