Re: Configuring X server

[steef <steefvanduin@zonnet.nl>]

s. keeling wrote:

> Incoming from Joseph:
>  
>
> > How to configure X in Debian.
> >    
>
> lists.debian.org is your friend.  I _think_ the answer is
> "dpkg-reconfigure xfree86", but check that.
>
>  
>
> > I must have don't some configuration incorrectly as I can not read any
> > fonts on the screen. 
> > Ctrl+Alt+1 is showing the same unreadable fonts.
> >    
>
> <CTRL><ALT>F1 gets you from X Window to the console.  <CTRL><ALT>F7
> gets you back to X.
>
>  
>
> > Lilo will not prompt at boot time either.
> >    
>
> Edit /etc/lilo.conf.  man lilo.  I use grub and no longer remember
> lilo stuff.
>
>
>  
try: #  dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86   to start with if these 
base-files were included at installation (check log}.

maybe even better:

# apt-get -f install xserver-xfree86


just toe see or - of course to install.
hope this will work

steef