said Ricardo (on 2003-03-25), > Hi. > My name's Ricardo and i've recently installed Debian 3.0r1 on my machine > and i'm having a problem. i've installed xfree86 but i can't launch the > xserver. I don't understand the error on the screen since i'm a newbie > with Linux but i think it has something to do with the VGA and the > Mouse. Can you help me with this? I've installed both ATI Radeon drivers > and FrameBuffer. The configuration of the mouse is ttyS1, i made this > configuration since i have 4 USB plugs(in the installation they were the > following: ttyS0 ttyS1 ttyS2 ttyS3). This is the hardware on my machine: > VGA ATI Radeon 7500 64mb AGP; Creative SB Live Player 5.1; a Realtek > Ethernet card(10/100); ASUS Motherboard for PIII Mod.TUSL2-C; a PIII > 700; Monitor LG 44i 14"; Logitech MouseMan Wheel USB; Alcatel Speed > Touch USB ADSL Modem (512kb). Is there a chance that any of this > hardware won't work under Debian GNU/Linux?
Hi Ricardo. I suggest that you post this to debian-user@lists.debian.org, as you will get many more responses there than here. My quick suggestion: If you haven't already done so, install the discover, mdetect, and read-edid packages. Then purge xserver-xfree86 and reinstall it. All the pertinent hardware should be discovered automatically and debconf should step you through a configuration will all the correct settings pre-selected. Courtesy of apt in #debian: `To set up X in woody, sarge or sid, "apt-get install discover read-edid mdetect && dpkg --force-depends -P xserver-xfree86 && apt-get install xserver-xfree86"' HTH, Geordie.
