On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 22:33, Rachel Andrew wrote:
> I got slightly further by going into dselect and removing as much of kde as
> I could find.
>
> It then installed Woody quite happily and it booted. But no X. So I
> downloaded XFree864.1.0.1, installed it, ran
> XFree86 - configure
>
> tried to run xf86config/xf86cfg and get 'command not found' and there ends
> my knowledge. I've only set up X manually once before and that was when I
> installed Potato, so I have absolutely no idea why this isn't working or
> where to look to fix it. I've looked at the online docs and see no reason
> why this shouldn't work.
As fare as I can remember potato runs by default on XFree 3.3.x and the
config files of 3.3.x and 4.x.x are not compatible. I had the same
problem at that time. The tools you mentioned are deprecated, but you can
run 'XFree86 --configure' somehow:
Manual page XFree86(1x):
-configure
When this option is specified, the X server loads
all video driver modules, probes for available
hardware, and writes out an initial XF86Config(5x)
file based on what was detected. This option cur�
rently has some problems on some platforms, but in
most cases it is a good way to bootstrap the con�
figuration process. This option is only available
when the server is run as root (i.e, with real-uid
0).
I think that is the way I have resolved that problem ...
> Should I just trash this install and start over with my CD?
No, too much work and I guess you will have the same problems ...
Bye, Steffen
