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Re: 1 CD Woody install, GDM and XFree configuration problem



On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 07:02:40PM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> First problem was no servers for X on the CD. This makes the single CD
> install for machines not-net-connected must wait for an X server 'til
> later...

Who creates woody CDs without the xserver-xfree86 on them?

> So, I toasted a CD with the xserver-common and xserver-xfree86 packages,
> took it next door, and we installed them.
> 
> Next we ran dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 until we got mode lines and
> mouse protocols that would work with the provided hardware (/dev/psaux and
> MouseManPS/2). The mode lines took several tries, but we finally got
> something to work, saved the config-4 file and played around with GNOME a
> bit.

Mode lines?  The debconf configure script for xserver-xfree86 doesn't
even let you specify mode lines.  The most it will ask you are your
monitor's horizontal sync and vertical refresh tolerances.

Also, have you considered apt-get installing discover, mdetect, and
read-edid so that you can take advantange of the debconf script's
hardware autodetection features?

> Upon rebooting the machine, GDM failed to successfully start the server,
> complaining that it could not open /dev/psaux!

Is this a devfs-based kernel?  Is the devfs daemon running?

> Nothing changed that I could see, but it appears that GDM re-wrote
> some of the entries in the config file, most notably the vertical and
> horizontal refresh rates.

I seriously doubt gdm rewrote your X server configuration file.

Maybe you have more than one lying around after all your manual efforts?

See XF86Config-4(5).

> At this point, no amount of dpkg-reconfigure got us a working system, and
> we gave up and went back to working on other problems...

And a bug report like this is pretty worthless without the config file
you're using, or the X server's log file.  Please supply both.

1) /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
2) /var/log/XFree86.0.log

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