Re: why is debian the only distribution that won't let me run X?
bboett@bboett.dyndns.org (Bruno Boettcher) writes:
> seems there's no way to get X running under debian on my new Medion
> laptop....
It'd help if you told us exactly what was wrong; looking at the log
files you sent pointers to, it sounds like "the X server doesn't start".
> chipset is a GeforceFX from nvidia, Proc P4@2.8GHz
> the log files are here:
> http://www.inforezo.org/~bboett/xfree.log
> http://www.inforezo.org/~bboett/XFree86.0.log
> http://www.inforezo.org/~bboett/XF86Config-4
Is there a reason you're trying to use the "vesa" driver, as opposed
to the "nv" driver? You might have a little more luck with the
latter. (This is the free unaccelerated NVidia driver that comes with
XFree86.)
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