Re: Debian on iBook startx problem
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
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> Mij wrote:
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> >On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 16:50:23 -0800
> >Curtis Vaughan <curtis@npc-usa.com> wrote:
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> >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
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> >>Believe it or not, there are no .xsession or .xinit files in my home
> >>directory.
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> >>Curtis
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> >>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?
> >>>>
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> >>>you do have a winmanager installed, don't you?
> >>>in this case, try removing ~/.xsession and ~/.xinit files.
> >>>
> >>>bye
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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:
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> >>>>>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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