Xwindows not starting maybe AfterStep problem

Keith Alen Vance (nfn11988@naples.net)
Mon, 25 May 1998 14:41:32 -0400 (EDT)


I have recently been screwing up my system and I am about ready to trash 
the whole thing and start over from scratch. I purchased a new video card 
Mystique 220 and I am trying to get it work with Xfree86 and AfterStep. I 
downloaded the files for Xfree86 3.3.1 and installed them and then setup 
afterstep 1.4. The problem is that if I do a startx it returns an error 
that it can't find afterstep.So if I go in to the .xinitrc file and 
comment the afterstep line out xwindows starts and then shuts down 
without any error messages. What I am saying is that it starts and then 
automatically shutdown right away. I really screwed things up when I was 
extracting the xfree86 files. I extracted them in the wrong directory at 
least once. So my hard drive is almost full. Is there a way I can delete 
files by date. I would really like to totally back out of everything that 
I have done today and start over with a fresh kernel and the bare 
necessities. I am reluctant to just wipe my drive because I installed 
Linux via ftp and that takes awhile. Any suggestions would be great.

Thank You,
Keith

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