On Saturday 18 December 2004 17:42, Robert Vangel wrote:
> cfk wrote:
> > Gentlemen:
> > Its my turn to be a newbie to Debian, although I have used Red Hat for a
> > few years. Please bear with me and suggest how I may get my newly
> > installed "Sarge" to start X.
> >
> > I try the incantation "startx" from either a user or root command prompt
> > and get "command not found".
> >
> > Charles
>
> Perhaps `apt-get install xserver-xfree86' is needed
Dear Robert:
Thank you for your kind reply. I was in the midst of reading apt-get's
commands and options as I come up to speed on Debian.
I did try 'apt-get install xserver-xfree86' and apt-get finishes very
quickly
saying:
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree ... Done
xserver-xfree86 is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded
Then I invoke startx from the root prompt and get
-bash: startx: command not found
So, I did 'echo $PATH' and found /usr/bin/X11 was in the path, went there and
saw there was no 'startx', but there was an 'X', which when run, gives me a
modest blank X screen. Unfortunately, no menu or any right click mouse option
such as 'open terminal'.
I can go 'Alt-Ctrl-F1', F2 or F3 where F1 shows some error messages, F2
gets
me back to the big blank X window and F3 gives me a new logon prompt with an
inoperable keyboard.
At this point I am pressing the reset switch and starting over and hoping for
a bit more advice.
Charles
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