Re: FVWM: Newbie Question

From: Erik Steffl <esteffl_at_pbi.net>
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 08:13:36 -0800

  doesn't look like fvwm problem but like X server problem.try to use
some other program instead of fvwm (xterm or whatever else) and see if X
will come up, once you have X running (no window manager) you can run
fvwm

        erik

Vaughn Eisler wrote:
>
> Wondering if someone can help me.
>
> I have a Sun Ultra 10 and just installed X11R6.5 and fvwm 2.3.9. When
> attempting to xinit to start fvwm, I get the following error message:
>
> Fatal server error:
> Cannot open /dev/kbd, error 13
>
> xinit: Error 0 (errno 0): Server error.
>
> However, my console keyboard exists and is functioning:
>
> $ cd /dev
> $ ls -las kbd
> 2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Jan 20 16:49 kbd ->
> ../devices/pseudo/conskbd_at_0:kbd
>
> Anyone know how I might be able to work through this error message? Please
> email me back at veisler_at_dynamicsoft.com
>
> Thanks,
>
> Vaughn Eisler
>
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