On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 01:21:23AM -0800, jennyw wrote: > > Anyway, the first thing you should do is try to apt-get remove (or > > dpkg --purge, if you're feeling vindictive and don't mind handling > > I just tried this; same results as before.
We need to know what these results were! :) xserver-mach64 is not needed, so any packages that depend on it can almost certainly go when you ditch it. How it is complaining? > > Also: when you say "X won't load", what do you mean? Does it go straight > > I start X using /etc/init.d/gdm start. The screen blinks for a bit, then it > stops, then it blinks for a bit more, then it stops, then it does it again. > I assume it's trying the three video modes (640x480, 800x600 and 1024x768) > that I selected, and is finding that none of them works. By the way, my > system apparently has no startx. Don't use gdm until you get X working. gdm could be introducing more hassles, and certainly more complexity than we need right now :). And for startx: # apt-get install xbase-clients > Any other suggestions? I did have this working well under Potato. Potato uses version 3 X servers; Woody and unstable support both the version 3 X servers and the shiny and new version 4 one. We're trying to get the shiny and new version going :). -- Andrew Sione Taumoefolau [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midspark.net/shazbot/
