Re: X11R6

[Paul William <maillist@bestworldweb.homelinux.com>]

run tasksel as root and select "desktop environment" and then (i think)
click finish and then do whatever else it tells you to do.

On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 15:10, 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?
>  
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