RE: X server problems
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fredrik Ax [mailto:fax@df.lth.se]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 1998 8:42 AM
> To: Braden N. McDaniel
> Cc: Debian User Mailing List
> Subject: Re: X server problems
> You must install the VGA server in order to use it.
>
> dpkg -i dists/stable/main/binary-i386/x11/xserver-vga16_3.3.2.3-1.deb
>
> from the root of your Debian distribution.
> (substitute binary-i386 with correct binary-folder if not Intel)
> or use dselect to selecet the xserver-vga16 package.
>
> If you have another xserver installed you will, when the package is
> configured, be asked if you want to use VGA16 as default instead.
> Answer Yes. If you want to change the default xserver by hand,
> edit the file /etc/X11/Xserver.
Thanks. According to dselect, the VGA16 server was already installed. But so
were some other superfluous ones (ATI, S3, etc.), so I removed them all and
reinstalled just the VGA16 server. I think that probably worked.
Unfortunately I hit a snag.
Now when I boot the machine, my monitor goes to sleep as soon as the boot
sequence has completed. I *think* this is because I elected to being xdm up
at bootup when I initially installed everything, and now that setting is
kicking in. I suspect the problem may be that the X server has not yet been
properly configured. How can I get to a prompt so I can run xf86config?
Braden
<http://www.endoframe.com>
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