Re: why is debian the only distribution that won't let me run X?

[Paul Scott <paslist@ultrasw.com>]

Bruno Boettcher wrote:

> Hello,
>
>  seems there's no way to get X running under debian on my new Medion
>  laptop....
>
>  i tryed so far Mandrake, Suse, Redhat and Knoppix and none had the
>  slightes problem to set up at least the vesa X server....
>
>  i still try to install debian (usntable) on the laptop, and discover
>  discovers nothing, and even the XF86 config files saved from thos
>  other distributions that worked perfectly well on my laptop don't work
>  under debian.....
>
>  the nvidia drivers only crash the machine so as it seems i will have
>  to switch distributions :(
>
>  but anyway... what's so different about the X setup between debian and
>  the others that the same config files don't work???
>
>  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
>
>  any help welcome....
>  
Just copy the XF86Config-4 that Knoppix creates.

Paul Scott