sergio sevillano wrote:i have tried many live cd distros un-successfuly i gess im having trouble with the graphic card:(ATI Mobility Radeon (4X AGP) graphics with 16 MB of DDR SDRAM; screen size is 1152x768 )so all previous installations where ok but after final reboot i could not visualize the desktop. finally i have installed debian502 but with no desktop. plain console that looks ok to me. can someone give me a hint of what should be next step? i gess is finding a driver for the card, then installing KDE? thanks sergio
Peter Rooney escribió:
sergio,you minght not have installed any Xserver or desktop environment packages - you can try runningapt-get install kde which installs everything needed. can you post the contents of file /etc/X11/xorg.conf please?peter
i have finally installed xorg with "apt-get install xorg" and then kde "apt-get install kde" seems to install it ok then i have run "startx" and ... blank page now i can not get back to the console i have shut down the machine but now allways starts directly to the blank page after yaboot sorry now i dont know how to take a look at /etc/X11/xorg.confbesides the blank page i have to tell you ive been using linux for a couple of days so im not familiar with any syntax (commands)
sergio