Hey, Make sure that XF86_SVGA is installed (it might not be, that's often happened to me). Try 'apt-get install xserver-svga'
Cameron Matheson On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 10:16:31PM +1000, David Underwood wrote: > Greetings Debian folk, > > I have a problem that I hope that you may be able to help me with. I am > not entirely new to Linux having run both Redhat and Mandrake over the > last year or so. > > Having said that I am no guru either! > > However I am totally new to Debian. > > I have just recently installed 2.2r3 onto one of my systems. There is a > problem with setting up X. > > The video card is a Gigabyte GA-620 (Nvidia Riva TNT2 chipset), AGP with > 32 meg of ram. > > When installing anXious was unable to detect the card and mentioned the > need to run xviddetect after the completion of installation. > > xvidetect's output, last line reads > > 10de002d|i386|Nvidia corporation|Riva TNT2 Model 64 > > I have run xf86config and selected XF86_SVGA as the default X server. > > After attempting to 'startx' I get the following messages. > > X: exec of /usr/bin/X11/XF86_SVGA failed > _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 > giving up > xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server > xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. > > My gratitude to anyone that can offer advice. > > Regards > > David Underwood > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
