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Re: Getting X to start



On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 12:55:23AM +1100, Russell wrote:
> Kris K wrote:
> >Hi -
> >
> >Just installed Debian, and can't get X to start.  I've included my 
> >XF86Config-4 file, plus the log output that results from it.  What can I 
> >do to get it to work (ok...RTFM...that didn't work)?  Thanks for your 
> >help guys.
> 
> As root, try XFree86 -configure
> which should give something that works that you can start from.

Better still, as root:
$ apt-get install discover mdetect read-edid
$ dpkg -P --force-depends xserver-xfree86 xfree86-common
$ apt-get install xserver-xfree86 xfree86-common

I'm assuming there's a better way to do this than purging X, but I
haven't found it (not that I've looked too hard, it built my config with
vim).

-rob

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