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Re: Xserver



* J Y <jhy@x-mail.net> [030905 16:30]:
> Hi I am new to debian, but have used those big commercial distros.
> I installed 3.0 but am not having any luck getting X to start. I reinstalled several
> times taking a lot of time checking the packages. But login just leaves me at the
> command line. I type startx  and get this response: Build Operating system: linux
> 2.4.17i686 (ELF) module loader present (==) log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log",
> (EE) Unable to locate/open config file
> (EE) Error from xf86Handle Config File ()
> Fatal Server error
> no screens found
> 
> XIO: Fatal IO error 104 (connection reset by peer)
> on X server
> "0.0" after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0
> events remaining.

You need to configure the xserver-xfree86 package. To get some
hardware detection try installing the discover package first

HOWTO

% apt-get install discover
% dpkg-reconfigure -plow xserver-xfree86

Cheers,

Nick.

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Debian testing/unstable
Linux twofish 2.6.0-test3-looxt93c2 i686 GNU/Linux

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