Re: X11R6

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

David R Hovland wrote:

> How do you get xwindows to start in Debian?  I have reloaded it four 
> times thinking I needed to use a different disk. I downloaded all 
> seven. All I get at login is this:
>  
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc: /usr/bin/X11/X: No such file or 
> directory.
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc: exec: /usr/bin/X11/X: cannot 
> execute: No such file or directory.
>  
> giving up.
>  
> xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to xserver
> xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error
>  
> I have two other Distro's on this machine, each on a different 
> harddrive, which have no trouble setting it up.  The video card is an 
> Nvidia MX200 GF2.  Is this the problem?
>  


I believe that means you don't have an X server installed. Assuming 
you're running X version 4.x, try "apt-get install xserver-xfree86" and 
see if that gets you a bit farther along.

--
Kent