On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 08:27:46PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 07:56:00PM -0400, David Nusinow wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 08:36:42AM +1000, Andrew Vaughan wrote: > > > What's really needed is better help for newbies dumped unexpectedly at > > > the > > > command-line because X wasn't installed/properly configured/didn't start. > > > > What's really needed is to fix our X autoconfiguration mechanisms so that > > this doesn't happen. One of my target goals is to work on this post-etch, > > and happily upstream is working hard on it as well. If people want to help > > with this issue, please follow up to debian-x. > > > > IIRC, the majority of the "I ended up at a text prompt, what do I do > now?" questions we see on d-u are not X configuration problems. They > are newbies who pick all the defaults and up without X on their systems > entirely.
This should be fixed for etch, afaik. If you just choose the defaults, you'll end up with a gnome desktop installation and X up and running by default. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
