FW: Problems with XF86Config
-----Original Message-----
From: Helgi Örn [mailto:hehe@post.netlink.se]
Sent: Friday, August 11, 2000 2:22 PM
To: jamesdoyle_new.uk@excite.co.uk
Subject: RE: Problems with XF86Config
Hi James!
That's an effort you go through to be able to send an e-mail!
What you will have to do is get yourself acquainted with a program calles
'xf86config', with it's help you make the file that's missing.
When you boot up and after logging in as root you write (note: case
sensitive):
xf86config
and the program will start, just take it easy through the process, you can
always start from the beginning again if it doesn't work. Observe that in
xf86config you can do the 'basic' configuration which you can change later
on. When finished with xf86config you can (still as root) try to start
another program called XF86Setup like this:
XF86Setup
(case sensitive)If it opens up then you got at least a vga server running.
Answer 'yes' to the question if you want to use the xf86configuration. Note
that XF86Setup can easily crash on you if for example it doesn't like the
mouse configuration or something, so i advice you to only use the keyboard
untill you are positive that the mouse works right. It's easy to get around
with the Tab, Space and arrow keys.
Last thing you do in XF86Setup is to start the x-server of your choice in
the default mode you want.
Good luck!
Helgi Örn
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jamesdoyle_new.uk@excite.co.uk
> [mailto:jamesdoyle_new.uk@excite.co.uk]
> Sent: Friday, August 11, 2000 1:07 PM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Problems with XF86Config
>
>
>
> James Doyle MA Maîtr.en Hist.
> 147 South Street, Armadale,
> BATHGATE EH48 3JT
> West Lothian, Scotland.
> Email: jamesdoyle@excite.co. uk
> Tel .Mobile: (++44) 07944 921915 Fax (inwards) (+44) 0 845 281 2648
> Hello,
> "OS can't find an XYF86Config file"
>
> Debian 2.1
>
>
> I want to install Linux on two HDs, one is an old 850 MB Conner,
> from which
> all traces of Gates & Co.have been banished and this will be pure
> Linux, and
> a new 6.5 GB HD which is dual-boot Win95 and Linux. I downloaded
> Star Office
> in both Win95 and Linux forms, and have been using it under Win 95 for
> several months and I never want to have MS Office on my box again!
>
> Gates does not like Star Office, and the PC goes bananas
> regularly, but Star
> is crash-proof and always saves correctly, and nothing gets lost.
>
> I have tried SuSe and Red Hat ( Mandrake), but I much prefer the Debian
> basic installation. Dselect on the Conner is OK.
>
> The problem: Debian can't find an XF86 config file, the result is that
> X-Windows cannot start, although Dselect has installed everything else.
> Unlike Suse "YAST"
> Debian never asked me anything about my monitor, and never
> mentioned setting
> up an XF86 config file.
>
> Please say how I can create the missing file, how I get it
> into the correct
> directory and let startx work?
>
> Monitor: Triumph-Adler monchrome 14"
> Video Bandwith more than 30 Mhz analog
> (80x 25)
> line frequency 31467 Hz
> frame frequency 60-70 Hz
> Video card - Venus VGA
> Tests
> Actual mode (3h Text) 80 x 25
> V H
> 70.00KHz 31.43Khz
> mode 12h (graphic 640 x 480)
> 64.08Khz 31.54 Khz
>
> I hope you can help!
>
>
> As I have no Internet connection here at home, I have to prepare this
> message at home under Star Office and then cart this on diskette to the
> public library and load it under *** MS-Office to send it under Netscape
>
> Sincerely,
> James Doyle
>
>
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