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Re: [LUG] xresets when trying to use video hardwre

 

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 03:31:54PM +0000, Paul Sutton wrote:
> from a console window openarena > output.txt fails.  so I tried from a 
> tty1 (normal full screen console)
> 
> I just get blank files

Error output would probably go to stderr if there is any, so try

    openarena > output.txt 2>&1

instead.

> Output MUST be directed somewhere to a log file,  I just don't really 
> know where to look I have looked in /etc/X11 as that has some log files, 
> but nothing seems to show up,

Logfiles don't (or shouldn't) go in /etc. They're almost certainly under
/var/log. X11 logs to /var/log/Xorg.0.log or ~/.xsession-errors by
default.

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