Re: HELP

[Geordie Birch <geordie@tao.ca>]

said Ricardo (on 2003-03-25),

> Hi.
> My name's Ricardo and i've recently installed Debian 3.0r1 on my machine
> and i'm having a problem. i've installed xfree86 but i can't launch the
> xserver. I don't understand the error on the screen since i'm a newbie
> with Linux but i think it has something to do with the VGA and the
> Mouse. Can you help me with this? I've installed both ATI Radeon drivers
> and FrameBuffer. The configuration of the mouse is ttyS1, i made this
> configuration since i have 4 USB plugs(in the installation they were the
> following: ttyS0 ttyS1 ttyS2 ttyS3). This is the hardware on my machine:
> VGA ATI Radeon 7500 64mb AGP; Creative SB Live Player 5.1; a Realtek
> Ethernet card(10/100); ASUS Motherboard for PIII Mod.TUSL2-C; a PIII
> 700; Monitor LG 44i 14"; Logitech MouseMan  Wheel USB; Alcatel Speed
> Touch USB ADSL Modem (512kb). Is there a chance that any of this
> hardware won't work under Debian GNU/Linux?

Hi Ricardo.

I suggest that you post this to debian-user@lists.debian.org, as you will
get many more responses there than here.

My quick suggestion:

If you haven't already done so, install the discover, mdetect, and
read-edid packages.  Then purge xserver-xfree86 and reinstall it.  All the
pertinent hardware should be discovered automatically and debconf should
step you through a configuration will all the correct settings
pre-selected.

Courtesy of apt in #debian:

`To set up X in woody, sarge or sid, "apt-get install discover read-edid
mdetect && dpkg --force-depends -P xserver-xfree86 && apt-get install
xserver-xfree86"'

HTH,

Geordie.