On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 07:56:00PM -0400, David Nusinow wrote: > On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 08:36:42AM +1000, Andrew Vaughan wrote: > > What's really needed is better help for newbies dumped unexpectedly at the > > command-line because X wasn't installed/properly configured/didn't start. > > What's really needed is to fix our X autoconfiguration mechanisms so that > this doesn't happen. One of my target goals is to work on this post-etch, > and happily upstream is working hard on it as well. If people want to help > with this issue, please follow up to debian-x. > IIRC, the majority of the "I ended up at a text prompt, what do I do now?" questions we see on d-u are not X configuration problems. They are newbies who pick all the defaults and up without X on their systems entirely. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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