Brian Henning wrote:
Hi Y'all,Brian,
After 5 hours of downloading packages (perhaps I chose unwisely...), I finally got to reboot my Debian Sarge install....and I can't figure out how to get X to start. I feel really dumb, too, because I've done this before and got the graphical login and everything working as I expected it... but I can't remember what, if any, special hoops I had to jump through. There aren't any X respawning too fast-type error messages that I see... just no X. Hints? Allegations? Things left unsaid? erhh.. Anyway, thanks as always for the tips.
Cheers, ~Brian
---------------- Brian A. Henning Strutmasters.com 866.597.2397 ----------------
I've had two Debian installs where X did not come up (or run at all with startx). I used a dsl linux (live CD) to boot and copy its XF86Config-4 file to the Debian HD. (/etc/X11 I think?). The problem was XF86Config-4 is broken in the monitor section, the ketboard and mouse were OK, as was the different resolutions on the video card but the monitor section was bad.
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