Re: can't startx (sorry)
hi,
it's a vanilla woody 3.0, i think gnome came down in the destop task but i
haven''t got that far to a problem.
it's an s3 card and installing xserver-s3v
now gets me the error message:
Fatal server error:
No config file found
which is new, but seems like a step back
At 09:54 PM 8/12/02 +0000, Maya wrote:
>What Video Card do you have?
>What version of GNOME/LINUX are you using?
>
>See if you can use SuperProbe ;}
>
>On 2002.08.13 01:35 John Griffiths wrote:
>> 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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