On Wed, 2004-04-28 11:24:09 -0400, Ed Sutherland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I select the "ati" drive.
That might be right.
> I select "ATI Technologies Rage 128 Pro TR" as the video card ID.
Don't. Either the ati driver detects your hardware, or it doesn't.
> I enter "PCI:0:16:0" as my BusID (lspci says the decimal output is
> 0:10.0)
Don't to that either. "ati" will get that automatically, as long as
there isn't a second ATI card installed.
> I say "yes" to the framebuffer (have also tried "no")
Say yes if your virtual consoles do run on framebuffers, no otherwise.
Use "dmesg" to see if your kernel enabled a framebuffer driver (if you
see a small little penguin in the top-left corner, then you're running a
framebuffer for sure; if it's missing, then you need to read the "dmesg"
output...).
> What am I missing? Every other linux distro -- YDL, Mandrake, Gentoo --
> have set-up X-Windows in minutes; Debian takes days, or even weeks.
Only if you don't know how XFree86 works:) That's the contents of your
/var/log/Xfree86.0.log (name may be slightly different), _after_ you
made those changes suggested above?
MfG, JBG
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