Re: Xorg-Xserver Config Issue
On Sat, 08 Aug 2009 12:00:16 -0400, Damon Chesser in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-08-08 at 09:19 -0400, S. Fishpaste wrote:
>> Greetings;
>>
>> New install using the net-install imaage from Debian.org, installed the base-system only (no desktop), changed my sources list to 'testing' ass the net-install defaults to the current stable. During the net-install I selected the xfce4 desktop.
>>
>> Everything seemed to go normally except I wasn't prompted to configure xserver-xorg before rebooting. Consequently it installed gdm and on reboot the system freezes shortly after starting gdm.
>>
>> So I purged gdm and attempted to 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg'. This prompts for keyboard, and language input, but no video prompts. Wierd, I thought that was the way to reconfigure xserver.
>>
>> I'm not that familiar with the Linux GUI as I usually run my GNU/Linux boxes as GUI-less servers.
>>
>> So how do I get xfce4 up and running in Xorg ?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>
> Well, that method USED to work for selecting video settings. It no
> longer does, everything is done automagically now. I just installed a
> Sid that did not even have an xorg.conf file. I had to make a basic
> xorg.conf file to get my X working correctly. You don't have to make
> all if it up, just the parts of what ever stanza you might need. For
> example,
>
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "Device0"
> Driver "nvidia"
> EndSection
>
> The above might be your entire xorg.conf file.
>
> To start (and thus test xfce4 and X) you could run startxfce4 and see if
> it comes up or not. If not, start at the x11 logs. You might have to
> modify manually your xorg.conf file.
>
> HTH, still waking up, I tried hard to make sense.
Hi thanks it does. I have tried most of what you've suggested as my research indicated that a blank xorg.conf is something to be expected,however HAL didn't figure out any of my display hardware at all and I'm using a P3 Toshiba laptop so you'd think it wouldn't be this difficult. Not like it's ultra new hardware. Sarge worked great on this but the first time I updgraded to Lenny was OK but from Lenny to testing completely borked a working install in terms of a working Xserver-xorg config. Not at all like debian usually behaves. ;-)
I'll keep plugging away, thanks for your suggestions.
Cheers,
Steve
Toronto
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