On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 08:22:23PM +1100, Russell wrote: > soap_suds wrote: > >Hi there.. > > > >I have installed debian woody on my PC recently. I was using RHL7.1 > >till now. All my devices (graphics card, sound card etc) were > >autoconfigured in RHL is there any way to do the same in debian. I tried > >for the last few days googling and also searching debian list archives > >for previous mail. > > > >I know the problem will be ok if i reinstall rhl7.1 get the config files > >and then use them.. is there any other way since now i > >have blown my previous rhl partition. > > > >If there are some good urls then do suggest them please... > > > >I specifically want to detect graphics card, sound card and mouse, mine > >is a Dell Optiplex Gx150 PC. > > > >tried "lspci" but didn't give much info. > > > >I do hope this is the right place to ask my question > > First do: XFree86 -configure > as root, and add the relevant parts to /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 to get > the video, mouse and other things going. man X, man XFree86, man > XF86Config-4, > man startx, man gpm, google, etc. Possibly easier: $ apt-get install discover mdetect read-edid $ dpkg -P --force-depends xserver-xfree86 xfree86-common $ apt-get install xserver-xfree86 xfree86-common And let it try to autoconfigure your video and such. Also, have you installed a proper kernel yet? The bf2.4 or 2.2.20-idepci kernel are specifically known to not support things like soundcards and such. -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> http://ertius.org/
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