I'm trying to set up a clean version of Debian, and for the life of me I can't figure out why X won't work.
Attached it the output log of what happens when I try and run startx, as well as my XF86Config.
For what it's worth, I've got an s3 virge for video, a SYS 1510P for a monitor (flatscreen; does 1024x768), I'm running 2.4.21 (custom built), and debian unstable. Debian stable had exactly the same problem though. I tried going to the (unsupported) 4.3 for debian and got the same error, so I downgraded again.
This seems to be about par for the course with XFree86....does anyone know of an alternative? Even if its not a window-ing system, just something to use to allow a bit more graphical interface? I've re-installed 5 times now, and I either get "ServerLayout" --bad section heading, when the XFreeConfig file is itself made from it's own config program, or, as I've tried just about every server they have, the one which you're supposedly not having to configure, the frame-buffer one, simply states: device not found: /dev/fb0 (no, not /dev/fd0, but /dev/fb0). The oddest thing is that one of the configuration makers, xf86cfg, runs perfectly fine- I can see the sceen correctly, the mouse works, keyboard's OK, card+monitor- both good....yet it won't let me use that setup for the actual running of XFree86!
I give up... I've heard of a "mc" app, is that similar? I really had my heart set on XWindows (that was one of my major reasons for getting linux in the first place), but no matter what I do (or read- I've been all through the HOWTO's, FAQ's, sites, linux documention project, etc, etc, ) it's just not going to run.
Jay
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