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In tasksel, the X package is at the bottom. It is not the Desktop
Environment, but the server for that environment.
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Sincerely,
David Smead
http://www.amplepower.com.
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Dennis Krinke wrote:
> Last night at my Linux SIG meeting,
> I attempted to demonstrate x-windows installation
> for Debian woody. We already had loaded woody base.
>
> I had practiced at home and thought I was prepared,
> But it did not work on our computer club computer;
> I was not able to setup x-windows.
>
> I have two questions:
> 1) what is the most straightforward way
> to load x-windows packages? and
> 2) how do we get x-windows working on this machine?
>
> 1) I thought that if I ran tasksel and selected
> Desktop environment, that it would load all
> of the required packages for x-windows.
> It only loaded one package, I forget which, but
> it had nothing to do with x-windows.
> So, I went into dselect and selected:
> xserver-xfree86 xfree86-common twm xfs
> xserver-common xfonts-base
> and all of the required dependencies.
> We loaded some software, but no x-windows.
> Then I went into tasksel and selected
> Desktop Environment again and this time
> it added many more packages, but no x-windows.
> I kept expecting to see Debian configuration
> screens for x-windows, like I had seen at home
> in practice, but never did see them
> for our computer club computer.
> What is the name of that configuration program?
> Can it be run manually, if not automatically
> run by dselect?
>
> I tried a few more iterations through dselect
> but was not able to to figure out which
> packages were required.
>
> Here is a note that may be important:
> I was loading software from the first three
> CDs out of the 8 CDs in the woody distribution.
> That is, I was only using packages that
> are included in the first three CDs.
> There is a reason for this:
> I am burning these CDs myself and I am
> cramped on disk space - I only have room for
> the first three CDs that I have already
> downloaded.
> The woody build was dated Feb 27 of this year.
>
> 2) How do I get x-windows setup? x-windows
> makes three attempts to load and then stops.
> I am attaching the /var/log/XFree86.0.log .
> It gives: (EE) No devices detected. ,
> even though if previously seems to have
> detected an NVidia GeForce2 MX DDR rev 178 .
> Is there some package on CDs 4-8 that is
> required for GeForce2?
>
> TIA
> Dennis Krinke
>
>
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