On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 07:02:40PM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: > First problem was no servers for X on the CD. This makes the single CD > install for machines not-net-connected must wait for an X server 'til > later... Who creates woody CDs without the xserver-xfree86 on them? > So, I toasted a CD with the xserver-common and xserver-xfree86 packages, > took it next door, and we installed them. > > Next we ran dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 until we got mode lines and > mouse protocols that would work with the provided hardware (/dev/psaux and > MouseManPS/2). The mode lines took several tries, but we finally got > something to work, saved the config-4 file and played around with GNOME a > bit. Mode lines? The debconf configure script for xserver-xfree86 doesn't even let you specify mode lines. The most it will ask you are your monitor's horizontal sync and vertical refresh tolerances. Also, have you considered apt-get installing discover, mdetect, and read-edid so that you can take advantange of the debconf script's hardware autodetection features? > Upon rebooting the machine, GDM failed to successfully start the server, > complaining that it could not open /dev/psaux! Is this a devfs-based kernel? Is the devfs daemon running? > Nothing changed that I could see, but it appears that GDM re-wrote > some of the entries in the config file, most notably the vertical and > horizontal refresh rates. I seriously doubt gdm rewrote your X server configuration file. Maybe you have more than one lying around after all your manual efforts? See XF86Config-4(5). > At this point, no amount of dpkg-reconfigure got us a working system, and > we gave up and went back to working on other problems... And a bug report like this is pretty worthless without the config file you're using, or the X server's log file. Please supply both. 1) /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 2) /var/log/XFree86.0.log -- G. Branden Robinson | The first thing the communists do Debian GNU/Linux | when they take over a country is to branden@debian.org | outlaw cockfighting. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Oklahoma State Senator John Monks
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