[lug] FC9 startx Problems

[James Borley]

Bill Thoen wrote:
> I recently installed Fedora Core 9 and let it load everything for 
> server and desktop. However the X11 server failed to start, so it 
> booted up in text mode. When I tried startx I got this error:
>
> error setting MTRR (base = 0xe2000000, size = 0x05000000, type = 1) 
> Invalid argument (22)
>    [112] 640 x 480, 60Hz, 75Hz, 85Hz, 100Hz, 160Hz
>    [115] 800 x 600, 60Hz, 75Hz, 85Hz
>    [118] 1024 x 768, 60Hz, 70Hz, 75Hz, 85Hz, 100Hz, 130Hz
>    [11b] 1280 x 1024, 60Hz, 75Hz, 85Hz, 100Hz
> (EE) SAVAGE(0): No valid modes found
> error setting MTRR (base = 0xe2000000, size = 0x05000000, type = 1) 
> Invalid argument (22)
> (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
>
> Fatal server error:
> no screens found
> giving up.
> xinit:  Connection refused (errno 111):  unable to connect to X server
> xinit:  No such process (errno 3):  unexpected signal 2.
>
> I checked wiki.x.org and found the page referencing the error 
> "Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration", but it said 
> nothing about the "error setting MTRR" problem, and I don't understand 
> what it says, either. The monitor (which worked fine in FC6) is a Nec 
> Multi-synch 4DS.
>
> Any ideas what I should try?
>
> TIA,
> - Bill Thoen
>
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Try:
system-config-display --reconfig