Re: Newbie installation
On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 19:08 +0100, Martin Dowie wrote:
> > > > OK. Usually, 'startx' should start up X with whatever desktop is
> > > > set as the default. (Time enough to worry if it's the one you want
> > > > when X is running).
> > >
> > > Not a sausage - not even an error message. :-(
> >
> > Well, there must be *some* messages - even if only 'command not found' ?
>
> Apparently there must not... :-(
>
> > You are logged in, I take it?
>
> Yeah - I a newbie as far a Linux is concerned but I'm no novice! :-)
To get X running, I recommend you install these packages with "aptitude"
or "apt-get":
x-window-system
gnome-desktop-environment
gdm
To reconfigure your X server, run
dpkg-reconfigure -plow xserver-xfree86
--
Karl Hegbloom <hegbloom@pdx.edu>
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