Re: Configuring X-Windows in Woody (Novice help)
On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 12:18:35AM +0300, Janjs Jangori wrote:
>
>
> Confession: Am a complete novice and just had my first Linux installed by
> following the
> 'Installing Debian Linux 3.0(Woody)'.
I would go with the new beta installer and install either testing (the
default with the regular setup) or unstable (with the expert setup or
upgrade later). X is _much_ easier to setup and its much newer. Woody
is more for the server world and kind of difficult for new users (its
installation and hardware discovery is much less friendly), also X is
really old, although I did see that it 4.1 which is better the 3.3 (or
whatever version the original woody had IIRC)
> However, when I login as root and type startx to get my GUI running I
> get
You should login as a regular user not as root.
> the err message
>
> x connection to :0.0 broken (Explicit kill or Server Shutdown)
>
This means it stopped due to an error but doesn't give the error. Send
the file /var/log/XFree86.0.log, it should contain the error.
> I did realise that am not the first to encounter this error. I tried all
> the suggestions
> given in the respective forums without success.
>
> Part of my lspci output is:
> 01:0.0 VGA Compatable Controller: S3 Inc.: Unknown device 8d04.
> When I ran
> dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86
> I was asked, among other things, to supply BUSID of the format
> PCI:nn:nn:nn
Leave it blank, if you read the full text it well tell you that apart
from circumstances you are probably not facing you don't have to enter
it.
> But I couldnt get this format from my lspci output(which I guess is 8d04)
> I also ran dselect to select,install and configure 'xserver-svga'
> On typing startx, I got the following error msgs
> SVGA PCI: S3 unknown chipset(0x8d04) rev 0, memory @ 0xdfe8000
> Looking at my monitor it is
> Philips 105MB, 15"
> However my XP display configuration is showing the following default
> settings:
> Chip Type:S3 ProSavage DDR, Resloution 800x600, color 32bit, Memory
> 32MB,and Refresh 60HZ
>
Looks like X is too old and isn't recognizing your card. Upgrade to
testing/unstable for X 4.3 or use backports.org.
> I really have no idea what's going on. I have reinstalled woody over
> 15times in each case
> recorded my steps but the error still persists. I'll not give up because
> Debian GNU/Linux
> is the direction I want to take.
> I sincerely appreciate help to get my GUI working.
>
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