Re: X setup

[Cameron Matheson <cmatheson3@yahoo.com>]

Hey,

Make sure that XF86_SVGA is installed (it might not be, that's often happened
to me).  Try 'apt-get install xserver-svga'

Cameron Matheson


On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 10:16:31PM +1000, David Underwood wrote:
> Greetings Debian folk,
> 
> I have a problem that I hope that you may be able to help me with. I am
> not entirely new to Linux having run both Redhat and Mandrake over the
> last year or so. 
> 
> Having said that I am no guru either!
> 
> However I am totally new to Debian.
> 
> I have just recently installed 2.2r3 onto one of my systems. There is a
> problem with setting up X.
> 
> The video card is a Gigabyte GA-620 (Nvidia Riva TNT2 chipset), AGP with
> 32 meg of ram.
> 
> When installing anXious was unable to detect the card and mentioned the
> need to run xviddetect after the completion of installation.
> 
> xvidetect's output, last line reads
> 
> 10de002d|i386|Nvidia corporation|Riva TNT2 Model 64
> 
> I have run xf86config and selected XF86_SVGA as the default X server.
> 
> After attempting to 'startx' I get the following messages.
> 
> X: exec of /usr/bin/X11/XF86_SVGA failed
> _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
> giving up
> xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server
> xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.
> 
> My gratitude to anyone that can offer advice.
> 
> Regards 
> 
> David Underwood
> 
> 
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