> -----Original Message----- > From: Fredrik Ax [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 1998 8:42 AM > To: Braden N. McDaniel > Cc: Debian User Mailing List > Subject: Re: X server problems
> You must install the VGA server in order to use it. > > dpkg -i dists/stable/main/binary-i386/x11/xserver-vga16_3.3.2.3-1.deb > > from the root of your Debian distribution. > (substitute binary-i386 with correct binary-folder if not Intel) > or use dselect to selecet the xserver-vga16 package. > > If you have another xserver installed you will, when the package is > configured, be asked if you want to use VGA16 as default instead. > Answer Yes. If you want to change the default xserver by hand, > edit the file /etc/X11/Xserver. Thanks. According to dselect, the VGA16 server was already installed. But so were some other superfluous ones (ATI, S3, etc.), so I removed them all and reinstalled just the VGA16 server. I think that probably worked. Unfortunately I hit a snag. Now when I boot the machine, my monitor goes to sleep as soon as the boot sequence has completed. I *think* this is because I elected to being xdm up at bootup when I initially installed everything, and now that setting is kicking in. I suspect the problem may be that the X server has not yet been properly configured. How can I get to a prompt so I can run xf86config? Braden <http://www.endoframe.com>