[This is an email copy of a Usenet post to "linux.debian.laptop"]
On Sat, 09 Mar 2002 14:28:52 +0100, Birka Harmuth wrote: > Hi, > > I wanted to install Debian on my HP XE3, but it does not work. The > installation wants to configure the graphics mode and I get > error-messages like these: > _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 Unable to > communicate with X-Server. That's not your GNU/Debian system not worknig, it's just X-windows. As to my own experience this is a very common thing to happen if you have some kind of non-standard graphics-hardware. I don't know if the HP XE3 is a laptop, but you should search the list-archive at http://lists.debian.org/ for your computer. Maybe try choosing the vesa-driver in the initial xserver-xfree86 configuation. > Then this routine starts again and again and agin. It accepts no > escape-key, so I cannot cancel the configuration. You should also be aware of the fact that almost none *nix programs accept the escape key. Try Ctrl-C instead. That works everywhere ... > Now, I want to restart and uninstall Debian but I don't know how. There > is also something written in the MBR, this has to be removed, because I > have not access to Windows at the moment. There are two ways of getting rid of the lilo-written MBR. One is to run lilo -U (check the manpage, i may very well be wrong). The other is to edit your /etc/lilo.conf file and check the commented-out paragraph at the bottom. There you can add your DOS partition, so you can choose what OS to boot in the initial lilo-screen at bootup. Or you can boot from a Microsoft bootdisk (CD-ROM, floppy, whatever), choose MSDOS-mode and run fdisk /mbr. That should rewrite your mbr to the one you got with windows. > Thanks for your help, > Birka It would also help if you could tell the list which release of debian you tried to install. The videocard drivers for X may very well be too old for you if youre using potato with xfree 3.1.x... Hope you won't give up that easy... Max -- /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN X AGAINST HTML MAIL AND NEWS / \ #--------------------------------------------# | Max Koszela [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Uppsala, Sweden UIN:31203338 | #--------------------------------------------# -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
