I just finished installing my "X" on a new system. I assume you are using the 1.3 release of linux (bo). I used dselect to install the system. It took me 3 tries to get it right (I'm new to using the Debian so maybe I'm doing something wrong... but it seemed that if you just pick all of the packages you want at once, the install in the wrong order and give you strange error messages. What seemed to work best was.
#1 Dig up everything you know about your monitor and video card. (Horz & Vert Scan freq. of monitor, video card mfg, type, chipset,...) I ended up looking on the web for the monitor mfg and printing out the specs for the monitor. As for the video card, I looked at it physically and wrote down all of the numbers printer on the board. These turned out to be helpful when asked what chipset it was using. #2 Select the base package and a server using dselect (I don't have my system here so you will have to look up the exact names in the descriptions). There are several choices of servers that will depend on your video card. I chose the "S3" accelerated server because of the card I had. Install there packages (and any required dependencies if dselect flags them). #3 Go back and select the fonts, manuals, window managers, etc. that you want to use. I found that if I tried to install the window manager at the same time as the base pkg, the WM loaded first and didn't find the required files from the base pkg. I'm sure that this can be solved by changing the order of the dselect loading, but I found it easier to just run select twice. #4 You will need to run the config script for your server. (Its called XF86Setup I think) It creates the XF86Config file that tells your server what to do. It will ask you a ton of questions that have to do with your video card, monitor, mouse, ... Well, I hope this helps... I'm pretty new at all of this, but the above worked for me! Doug Ben Szyc wrote: > I've just recently started using Debian and thought it's bout time I > installed X-Windows but I don't have much idea where to start. Can > someone please help me in detail if possible??? > thanx in advance > :) > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
