Debugging X.org drivers?

[Kendall Bennett]

Cameron <hiryu at audioseek.net> wrote:

> > Now I have a problem that I ran into year ago but since I have been using
> > the same Red Hat 7.3 box until now for debugging, I haven't seen it in
> > ages. Basically if I take a copy of the existin Fedora Core 2 install and
> > then do a 'make install' over the top, running 'startx' will start the
> > desktop but I just get a bunch of X terminals starting up and not the
> > usual KDE deskop that normally starts up. Switching back to the original
> > files (I saved them and symlink the directories) and everything is fine.
>
> A bunch of X terminals? You mean TWM (probably)? 

Yes, it is probably TWM. I guess it must replace the startx script or 
something.

> Try editing $HOME/.xinitrc so it says "exec startkde". That should
> give you KDE. 

Well I am trying to figure out what the install did that blew this away, 
so that I can avoid it doing it again in the future. I will probably 
piece it together from the existing etc/X11 directory that works, but I 
need to figure out how to stop make install from blowing away whatever 
startup script that it is touching.

Or I suppose once I find it I can just save/restore it across installs, 
but it seems to me that if an end user did a full build and a make 
install, they would not be too happy if the new server did not function 
the way the old one did....

Regards,

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