Laurent de Segur wrote: > > on 9/4/01 8:49 AM, Colin Walters at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > >> - Finally X windows won't start up. Period. It has nothing to do > >> with kernel 2.4.8. It has been like that even since I did the update > >> to woody. If I enter the command startx, it tells me that it can't > >> stat /etc/X11/X. > > > > Hm, strange. Do you have the `xserver-xfree86' package installed? > > No, I didn't. Thanks for pointing that problem to me. How come was I able to > install xfree86 with out being warn about not selecting xserver? Does that > mean that I need to select the individual xfree86 packages manually? This > would be really hard to remember all the names of various packages if it was > the case. I probably misunderstood something.
You've discovered the flexibility of the X windowing system and the Debian packaging. X's network transparency makes it possible to use clients without a local server; Debian doesn't impose an artificial dependency on it. If you want everything to use X locally, run tasksel and select the X window core or full task. > When I do apt-get install xserver-xfree86, I get a nasty string during > installation that shows in the dialog next to ok, stating that 'Failed to > open configuration file /etc/exim/exim.conf'. I think that I read this in > another message. Not sure what is causing it. Sounds like exim isn't configured yet, run eximconfig. > I got my XF86Config-4 file from someone who's got the same iBook 2001. When > I do a startx, the error message I get is: no screens found. The log stated > that Screen(s) found but none have a usable configuration (!) I checked that > my screen was set correctly for this machine and it seems like it. FYI, I > run the xfree86 from Woody (4.0.3). Has anyone with a similar machine ran > into that problem? Yes, almost everyone for whom it doesn't work. ;) That's a generic error which can be caused by a myriad of problems. Looking carefully at /var/log/XFree86.0.log might reveal the cause. One common problem is that you have to provide a bus ID. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer CS student, Free Software enthusiast \ XFree86 and DRI project member
