Re: xorg wont work and wont generate a log

[Jörg-Volker Peetz <peetz@scai.fraunhofer.de>]

Peter Smerdon wrote:
> Hello, I have a brand new HP pavillion laptop with debian unstable amd64
> installed.
> 
> I cannot get x to start, but more worrying than that is that
> /var/log/Xorg.0.log does not exist, and never gets generated.
> 
> here are the packages related to X that I have installed:
> 
> ,----
> | ii  xserver-xorg 1:7.3+6 
> | ii  xorg 1:7.3+6 
> | ii  xserver-xorg-core  2:1.4-3
> | ii  xserver-xorg-input-all 1:7.3+6 the
> | ii  xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:1.2.0~git20070819-4 
> | ii  xserver-xorg-input-kbd 1:1.2.2-3
> | ii  xserver-xorg-input-mouse 1:1.2.3-1 
> | ii  xserver-xorg-input-synaptics 0.14.7~git20070706-1
> | ii  xserver-xorg-input-wacom 0.7.7.11-1 
> | ii  xfonts-base 1:1.0.0-5
> | ii  xbase-clients 1:7.3+6  
> `----
> 
You need one of the xserver-xorg-video packages. There seems to be  no X
server on your machine.
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Regards,
Jörg-Volker.