I live and learn, that was quite impressive.
unfortunately the task came back as habing alreayd been installed.
thanks for the idea though
At 09:18 PM 8/12/02 -0400, Arthur H. Johnson II wrote:
>
>Try running "dselect update" first. That will update your tasks.
>
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>On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, 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
>>
>> and then
>>
>> XIO: Fatal IO error 104 (connection reset by peer) on X server
":0.0" after
>> 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining
>>
>> I've attached the log as recommended.
>>
>> any help would be appreciated.
>>
>> John
>
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