Confession: Am a complete novice and just had my first Linux installed by following the
'Installing Debian Linux 3.0(Woody)'.
However, when I login as root and type startx to get my GUI running I get the err message
x connection to :0.0 broken (Explicit kill or Server Shutdown)
I did realise that am not the first to encounter this error. I tried all the suggestions
given in the respective forums without success.
Part of my lspci output is:
01:0.0 VGA Compatable Controller: S3 Inc.: Unknown device 8d04.
When I ran
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86
I was asked, among other things, to supply BUSID of the format PCI:nn:nn:nn
But I couldnt get this format from my lspci output(which I guess is 8d04)
I also ran dselect to select,install and configure 'xserver-svga'
On typing startx, I got the following error msgs
SVGA PCI: S3 unknown chipset(0x8d04) rev 0, memory @ 0xdfe8000
Looking at my monitor it is
Philips 105MB, 15"
However my XP display configuration is showing the following default settings:
Chip Type:S3 ProSavage DDR, Resloution 800x600, color 32bit, Memory 32MB,and Refresh 60HZ
I really have no idea what's going on. I have reinstalled woody over 15times in each case
recorded my steps but the error still persists. I'll not give up because Debian GNU/Linux
is the direction I want to take.
I sincerely appreciate help to get my GUI working.
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