Bug#539271: Xorg installation failed
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: CD Netinstall
Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.2/i386/iso-cd/debian-502-i386-netinst.iso
Date: July 30, 2009 - around 8:00 AM
Machine: ASUS G1
Processor: T7200 Core 2 Duo
Memory: 2 GB DDR2
Partitions: sda1 Ubuntu 9.04, sda5 linux swap, the rest is empty for Debian
Output of lspci -knn (or lspci -nn): was OK, all the components recognized correctly
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot: [O]
Detect network card: [O]
Configure network: [O]
Detect CD: [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [O]
Install base system: [O]
Clock/timezone setup: [O]
User/password setup: [O]
Install tasks: [O]
Install boot loader: [O]
Overall install: [O]
Comments/Problems:
used apt-get install xorg as always but I found a problem: xorg was unable to start. We try to configure it in various ways (as instance we used dkpg-reconfigure xserver-xorg as root, but no way to go through).
That file was alkways empty, we tried both ways to install NVidia drivers but no success, always an empty xorg.conf file. We tryed to copy the default, to write it, to generate it, but nothing, when we reopened it, it was always empty (yes, we saved the file and we were root).
This problem affects also a friend of mine, who tried stable, unstable and testing daily iso, but no success at all.
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