Re: Installing X-Windows?
I just finished installing my "X" on a new system. I assume you are using the
1.3 release of linux (bo). I used dselect to install the system. It took me 3
tries to get it right (I'm new to using the Debian so maybe I'm doing something
wrong... but it seemed that if you just pick all of the packages you want at
once, the install in the wrong order and give you strange error messages. What
seemed to work best was.
#1
Dig up everything you know about your monitor and video card. (Horz & Vert Scan
freq. of monitor, video card mfg, type, chipset,...) I ended up looking on the
web for the monitor mfg and printing out the specs for the monitor. As for the
video card, I looked at it physically and wrote down all of the numbers printer
on the board. These turned out to be helpful when asked what chipset it was
using.
#2
Select the base package and a server using dselect (I don't have my system here
so you will have to look up the exact names in the descriptions). There are
several choices of servers that will depend on your video card. I chose the "S3"
accelerated server because of the card I had. Install there packages (and any
required dependencies if dselect flags them).
#3
Go back and select the fonts, manuals, window managers, etc. that you want to
use. I found that if I tried to install the window manager at the same time as
the base pkg, the WM loaded first and didn't find the required files from the
base pkg. I'm sure that this can be solved by changing the order of the dselect
loading, but I found it easier to just run select twice.
#4
You will need to run the config script for your server. (Its called XF86Setup I
think) It creates the XF86Config file that tells your server what to do. It
will ask you a ton of questions that have to do with your video card, monitor,
mouse, ...
Well, I hope this helps... I'm pretty new at all of this, but the above worked
for me!
Doug
Ben Szyc wrote:
> I've just recently started using Debian and thought it's bout time I
> installed X-Windows but I don't have much idea where to start. Can
> someone please help me in detail if possible???
> thanx in advance
> :)
>
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