Re: woody : X install
On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 03:39, Vikram wrote:
>
> A woody X install did not work via the "simple install" [non dselect]
> method on a friends machine. So it dumped me into console on boot. I
> needed to configure X ..... and I find out that [from irc] I have to:
>
> "install discover, read-edid, and mdetect, and purge and reinstall
> xserver-xfree86 using `dpkg --force-depends -P xserver-xfree86; apt-get
> install xserver-xfree86"`"
>
> I did it and it works great but I think its not such an easy thing for a
> new user.
Yes, that is a bug in Debian. We are going to fix it for the next
release.
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