Re: Cannot start X server
Incoming from Charles Muller:
> S. Keeling wrote:
>
> > Incoming from Charles Muller:
> > >
> > > I'm a Debian newbie, trying to install Debian on my laptop, a Clevo D400
> > > (on which Mandrake 9 and RH 9 ran OK). On the first boot after installation,
> > > I am getting hung just before starting the X server:
> > Uhh, what? You say yes, and it blinks and goes back to where it was?
> > Or, you say yes, it goes through the X Window configuration, and that
> > has no effect?
>
> Sorry for not being more precise. It blinks and goes back to where it
> was, without going through the configuration.
>
> > >From a root login, try "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xservername", where
> > "xservername" is your video system specific X server (svga? nvidia?
I meant "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" (find out which xserver-blah
package you have installed ("dpkg -l | grep xserver-")).
> situation. Perhaps I should try installing another desktop manager
> instead of GDM?
GDM hasn't anything to do with it. Once xserver is configured, any
?dm will work. Until X is sorted out, none of the ?dm's will work.
> a pre-installed OS. The video adapter is listed as an SiS M650.
You may have to find out which xserver package has support for
SiS M650. It may be in the generic one; I don't know. The
xfree86.org site lists the servers and the chips supported by each.
<http://www.google.com/search?q=SiS+M650&domains=xfree86.org&sitesearch=xfree86.org&btnG=Google+Search>
That appears to say that there's an "sis" driver out there. It
doesn't show up in Woody when I do "apt-cache search xserver-". You
may have to get a newer version of X (unstable, testing, ...) for it
to work.
If nothing else, you should be able to "dpkg -r xserver-blah", then
"apt-get install xserver-otherblah". Or maybe "apt-get install
--reinstall xserver-blah". That will force reconfiguration of X, and
you won't have to re-install the whole system to do it.
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