On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 04:07:09AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > > I want to install Linux on two HDs, one is an old 850 MB Conner, from which > all traces of Gates & Co.have been banished and this will be pure Linux, and > a new 6.5 GB HD which is dual-boot Win95 and Linux. I downloaded Star Office > in both Win95 and Linux forms, and have been using it under Win 95 for > several months and I never want to have MS Office on my box again! > > Gates does not like Star Office, and the PC goes bananas regularly, but Star > is crash-proof and always saves correctly, and nothing gets lost. > > I have tried SuSe and Red Hat ( Mandrake), but I much prefer the Debian > basic installation. Dselect on the Conner is OK. > > The problem: Debian can't find an XF86 config file, the result is that > X-Windows cannot start, although Dselect has installed everything else. > Unlike Suse "YAST" > Debian never asked me anything about my monitor, and never mentioned setting > up an XF86 config file. > > Please say how I can create the missing file, how I get it into the > correct > directory and let startx work? >
Debian doesn't configure X for you, but it does provide two tools that walk you through it: XF86Setup (in the "xf86setup" package) and xf86config (in the "xserver-common" package). XF86Setup uses 16 color VGA mode, so that's probably not an option for your system. Run the command # apt-get install xserver-mono xfonts-scalable xfonts-75dpi to install an appropriate Xserver and some fonts, and run # xf86config and tell it about your hardware. Be sure to choose the mono Xserver when it asks you which one to use (it'll probably recommend XServer-SVGA, but that doesn't do mono). You'll probably also want to run a command like # apt-get install icewm wmaker xterm to install some other window managers and xterm, if you haven't already done so. > Monitor: Triumph-Adler monchrome 14" > Video Bandwith more than 30 Mhz analog > (80x 25) > line frequency 31467 Hz > frame frequency 60-70 Hz > Video card - Venus VGA > Tests > Actual mode (3h Text) 80 x 25 > V H > 70.00KHz 31.43Khz > mode 12h (graphic 640 x 480) > 64.08Khz 31.54 Khz > > I hope you can help! > > > As I have no Internet connection here at home, I have to prepare this > message at home under Star Office and then cart this on diskette to the > public library and load it under *** MS-Office to send it under Netscape > This all supposes that you have a Debian CD or some other medium that you can use as a source of Debian packages, and that you have configured apt to use it. If you haven't, then this will involve a *lot* of to-ing and fro-ing with *many* floppy disks. John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mdt.net.au/~john Debian Linux admin & support:technical services
