On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 22:10 +0900, Charles Muller wrote: > David Goodenough wrote: > > > On Friday 30 December 2005 10:29, Charles Muller wrote: > > > >>After having run my Sharp Mebius MP 50G successfully for a while with > >>Woody, and then Sarge, I recently installed Etch Beta 1, but can't > >>get X working. When I try to startx, it doesn't bounce back out, but > >>just goes into a black screen, after which I can't shut X down with my > >>keyboard. > > > Why not start up Knoppix, copy the X configuration to the hard disk, > > reboot with Debian and copy the X configuration file into /etc/X11. > > It may require a bit of tweeking, but it should have the right > > settings for the resolution etc in it. > > Thanks for the suggestion. I gave this a shot, but since Knoppix 4.0 > is still using XFree86 and Debian/Etch is using xserver.xorg, the > structure of the entries in the configuration files is different. I > tried pasting some of the extra stuff provided by Knoppix into the > xorg.conf file but it just crashes. >
Actually, the differences between the configuration files for XF86 v4 and Xorg are minimal. If you use the XF86 config file that you obtained from knoppix and then try starting xorg, it will tell you the errors in /var/log/Xorg.0.log -- and they are all slight tweaks. (I have a laptop with an embedded Wacom tablet. It was a PITA to set up initially, so I really didn't want to go thru setting it up yet again.) HTH, -Ian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
