Re: Debian on iBook startx problem

[Curtis Vaughan <curtis@npc-usa.com>]

Well, I installed wmaker and then went through your xserver installation 
instructions all over again, but it's still not working.

HOWEVER!

Here's a work around I figured out, but I do wish to get this working right.

What I do is I issue the command "startx -lf 
/etc/alternatives/x-window-manager"

Then when x starts up with its grey screen there is an xterm console as 
well. In the xterm console I then enter the command kde2 and voila! I 
have KDE2.

Curtis

Mij wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 17:42:35 -0800
> Curtis Vaughan <curtis@npc-usa.com> wrote:
>
>
> > Ok, i followed your instructions, but nonetheless, I get a grey screen 
> > with the mouse. Nothing else.
>
>
> this means that you have everything working well.
>
> The page imply you have some piece of windowmanager installed
> before trying to get X woking:
>
> apt-get install wmaker
>
> and then redo everything you did so far and proceed
> with what you find on the page.
> When you get this working, I suggest you to try
> something like gnome, which I guess you'd like better.
>
> bye
>
>
> > Curtis
> >
> >
> > Mij wrote:
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> > > On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 16:50:23 -0800
> > > Curtis Vaughan <curtis@npc-usa.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Please follow step bye step the instructions in the page
> > > i pointed you to.
> > > Shut down you display manager, if you use one, and try starting
> > > the xserver manually; turning back to the console, you can see
> > > immediately what's wrong. It's difficult helping you if you don't
> > > give us some more detail.
> > >
> > > If X started manually gets well, probably your problem is
> > > the windowmanager (as I'm convinced it to be).
> > >
> > > bye
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > Believe it or not, there are no .xsession or .xinit files in my home 
> > > > directory.
> > > >
> > > > Curtis
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Mij wrote:
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> > > > > On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 16:16:17 -0800
> > > > > Curtis Vaughan <curtis@npc-usa.com> wrote:
> > > > >
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> > > > >
> > > > > > Ok, I dowloaded Mij's XF86Config-4 files and put it in /etc/X11and low 
> > > > > > and behold I got an x session.  However, i get just the log on screen. 
> > > > > > If I log on, it just returns to the log on screen.  What's up now?
> > > > > >  
> > > > > >
> > > > > >       
> > > > >
> > > > > you do have a winmanager installed, don't you?
> > > > > in this case, try removing ~/.xsession and ~/.xinit files.
> > > > >
> > > > > bye
> > > > >
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> > > > > > Curtis
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> > > > > > Mij wrote:
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> > > > > > > On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 15:29:06 -0800
> > > > > > > Curtis Vaughan <curtis@npc-usa.com> wrote:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > http://mij.oltrelinux.com/ibook/
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> > > > > > > > Basically, I followed the instructions for installing Debian on an iBook at the site http://cattlegrid.net/~christophe/titanium, but after doing the part concerning X, I run startx and get an 
> > > > > > > > errors stating among other things that the modules pex5 and xie don't exist. 
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Anyone have any advise on this?
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Curtis
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