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Re: X Window System will not start.



Hello Hoyt,

Am Fre, 2003-10-24 um 15.42 schrieb Hoyt Bailey:

[...]

> The new system consists of:
> Motherboard: Gigabyte 7VAX VIA KT-400, W/USB-2,Audio (AC97), 8X agp.
> Video: NVIDA GeForce-4 MX-440 4X agp.
> Modem: Intel 536EP PCI 56K V92.
> Powered by AMD 2100+ With 512M memory.
> 
> I installed Woody from the 7 CD disks and selected bf24 for the kernel.
> Installation went well except for the driver section.  The agp module would
> not install. 

The accelerated NVidia driver (d/l it here:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux.html) does bring its own AGP driver.

>  I installed what I recognized (Not very much).  I do not
> understand drivers and can find nothing which explains what modules do what
> not to mention any options.

Well, it is known that the Debian installer isn't very newbie friendly.
:)

[...]

> I would like to get X to start but dont know
> how. 

Posting your X-Free logfile would be a good start.

>  If it matters pppd also does not start PPP.  Its excuse is that the
> password in chaps-secret is bat however the entry looks correct to
> me.<password>    *    <Isp name>.  Please advise.

You may want to try replacing <Isp name> with *

HTH
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