[Tfug] (return to) grub question

[Stephen Hooper]

On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 13:35 -0700, Matthew Eskes wrote:
> Joel,
> 
> You know, I have to say that I forgot all about the kernel line, seeing that 
> I rarely have issues with things like that and thus since I don't do it that 
> often I tend to forget about simple shit like that.. Sorry I didn't think of 
> it sooner. As for the X issues, I personally would have to look at something 
> like that since it could be a number of things. One thing that I would like 
> to know is weather or not this is custom kernel or the stock debian kernel. 
> Im thinking that if this is a custom kernel, it could be a wrong/missing 
> kernel module. btw, can you pull anything out of the /var/log/messages or 
> /var/log/x?/log... I forget what the log is called in this case. Anyway, 
> good luck and if you have any issues, I will install x on my Debian server 
> and try to recreate the issues.


Both X Window distributions on Linux that I have used (XFree, Xorg) log
their errors/information in /var/log

The file is usually "XFree.0.log" for XFree, and "Xorg.0.log" for Xorg.

The "0" is the display number.  So if you have messed with that, then
you may have it XFree.1.log, etc.