On Wed, 2004-04-28 11:24:09 -0400, Ed Sutherland <digital@twcny.rr.com> wrote in message <[🔎] 20040428112409042253.GyazMail.digital@twcny.rr.com>: > I select the "ati" drive. That might be right. > I select "ATI Technologies Rage 128 Pro TR" as the video card ID. Don't. Either the ati driver detects your hardware, or it doesn't. > I enter "PCI:0:16:0" as my BusID (lspci says the decimal output is > 0:10.0) Don't to that either. "ati" will get that automatically, as long as there isn't a second ATI card installed. > I say "yes" to the framebuffer (have also tried "no") Say yes if your virtual consoles do run on framebuffers, no otherwise. Use "dmesg" to see if your kernel enabled a framebuffer driver (if you see a small little penguin in the top-left corner, then you're running a framebuffer for sure; if it's missing, then you need to read the "dmesg" output...). > What am I missing? Every other linux distro -- YDL, Mandrake, Gentoo -- > have set-up X-Windows in minutes; Debian takes days, or even weeks. Only if you don't know how XFree86 works:) That's the contents of your /var/log/Xfree86.0.log (name may be slightly different), _after_ you made those changes suggested above? MfG, JBG -- Jan-Benedict Glaw jbglaw@lug-owl.de . +49-172-7608481 "Eine Freie Meinung in einem Freien Kopf | Gegen Zensur | Gegen Krieg fuer einen Freien Staat voll Freier Bürger" | im Internet! | im Irak! ret = do_actions((curr | FREE_SPEECH) & ~(NEW_COPYRIGHT_LAW | DRM | TCPA));
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