Hi
I�m very new to Linux and recently spent ten weeks installing Debian on a
laptop. Always wanting to learn, I thought I�d give it another try, this
time on an unknown PC (celeron 600?). Everything went fine till it came to
telling the install about the video card, at which point I crossed my eyes
and pressed something that looked like it might be good. As a mac user I
have many years of experience clicking on things that look like they might
be good... As you will no doubt have guessed, the graphic user interface
doesn't work and reports on boot up, �I can not start the X Server (your
graphical interface). It is likely that it is not set up correctly�.
It goes on to give me a long error report, trys again to make things work
and then gives up, putting me to the command line.
I looked inside the box, but I�m none the wiser, other than the Mother
Board is made by ASUS. The video is all built in.
Problem 1: anyone got any idea what driver I might work with an ASUS board?
Problem 2: how do I install it?
If the answer is �start from scratch and reinstall the whole lot� then so
be it and I�ll do it gladly, but if there is a more elegant way, I�d love
to know about it.
I tried running �base-config� (/usr/sbin/base-config) but that ran through
a whole heap of errors and asked if I wanted to set-up my EMail. When I
said �no� it displayed
debconf: DbDriver �configdb� error: /var/cache/dbconf/config.dat is locked
by another process
base-config: 80poff exited with return code 1
debconf: DbDriver �configdb� error: /var/cache/dbconf/config.dat is locked
by another process
base-config: 90final-message exited with return code 1
and went back to the command line.
any ideas?
Thanks
Leif
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