Re: Installing Debian by installation disk
On Thu January 25 2007 06:35, Colin Perkins wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have installed both Gnome and KDE.
>
> Xinit shows 6 titles starting with X ; whether a xserver is running
> or not - I do not know.
>
> I have read the installation documents ; but I am still not sure what
> I am doing,
> I am trying to get either Gnome or KDE up as a graphical screen -
> without success.
>
> Can some kind person indicate what I should do now ?
Make sure you have xorg (or x-window-system for sarge) installed, I think that
would be a dependency of gnome or kde but I'm not sure. At the very end of
the boot sequence you should see kdm or gdm starting and that should fire up
your desktop manager and then you can log in. If that isn't starting
succesfully x may not be configured right. Try running "dpkg-reconfigure
xsever-xorg" (or "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" for sarge) and choose the
vesa driver, that will (almost) always work. You can tweak it further once
your up and running if needed.
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