X11 installation/config problem
Yesterday I installed Debian Linux for the first time and ran into a
problem. I have Debian Linux 2.0.34, using the CD distributed by Heiko
Schlittermann (if that is of importance).
For some reason I couldn't fix, the xinitrc has not been installed or
was not found while installing the packages with dselect, so I couldn't
configure the X11 (XFree86) for my system (graphics card etc.). Checking
the list of installed packages I didn't see any hints that installation
was incomplete. Will it be sufficient to retry configuration with
/usr/sbin/xbase-configure, and what is the "force" option for? And if
the problem with the undetected xinitrc reappears: what do you recommend
to do? - My graphics card is ELSA Winner/SPEA Mirage V7 VESA S3 Trio64,
judging from the hardware compatibility HOWTO that sould be no problem,
right?
Additionally, I made a mistake during installation later: when choosing
the graphics card drivers, I set the driver spec to "package
maintainer's" instead of "keep former one" (which was the default, I
idiot) as I thought, there would be no former one, as it was a new
installation. Now the S3 driver I had specified before was substituted
by something like XFREE86_NONE or so, and I have no idea how to recover.
Please, has anybody some hints for me on how to get these problems
solved and X11 installed?
Thanks in advance,
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Thomas Ruedas
Institute of Meteorology and Geophysics,
J.W. Goethe University Frankfurt/Main
Feldbergstrasse 47 D-60323 Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Phone:+49-(0)69-798-24949 Fax:+49-(0)69-798-23280
e-mail: ruedas@geophysik.uni-frankfurt.de
http://www.geophysik.uni-frankfurt.de/~ruedas/
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