Re: can't startx (sorry)

["Eric G. Miller" <egm2@jps.net>]

On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 11:00:20AM +1000, John Griffiths wrote:
> good morning
> 
> as recommended in a few places I installed
> 
> discover read-edid and mdetect before trying to install Xwindows.
> 
> in tasksel I tried to install "X Window System complete"  but got a message
> "Couldn't find package task-x-window-system"
> 
> so I did 
> 
> #apt-get install x-window-system 
> 
> that installed a lot of stuff and nothing complained, but when I try to
> startx I get a message:
> 
> Fatal server error:
> no screens found

You probably need to configure X.  Try xf86cfg or xf86config...

-- 
Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>