Last month I sought advice on how to get Xorg to load. Briefly, I
installed Etch RC1 in a P3 box. The first boot after installation
worked only to the point where Xorg should have started but did not.
Running dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and fiddling with the
configurations several times always returned these three EEs:
(EE) Failed to load module "kbd" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) Failed to load module "mouse" (module does not exist, 0)
(II) APM: driver for the Alliance chipsets: AP6422, AT24, AT3D
(II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:00:0
(EE) No devices detected.
Fatal server error:
no screens found
In desperation, on 2007-01-16 I posted a query to this list. Five
people answered me with positive suggestions. I am submitting my
success report on the late side; but a series of medical problems have
slowed me down lately.
In short, I discovered that only some of the packages in the
x-server-x-org meta-package had been installed by the installer.
Missing were x-server-xorg-imputs-all, four of its five dependencies,
x-server-xorg-video-all, and all but one of its 36 dependencies. The
two dependencies installed were x-server-xorg-imputs-acecad and
x-server-xorg-video-apm.
I needed only two of the five dependencies of x-server-xorg-imputs-all:
-kbd and -mouse. After installing these two packages and running
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg again I got the kbd and mouse modules
installed, but not the video driver.
I then examined the information about the 36 dependencies and discovered
that each one is specific to a given video card or a group of such
cards. The one installed was -apm, for Alliance Pro Motion cards;
whereas my card was a Matrox.
I then installed xserver-xorg-video-mga and ran dpkg-reconfigure
xserver-xorg once more. This time, when asked to choose between apm and
mga, I knew what was meant and so chose mga. When the reconfiguration
ran its course X.org was up and running.
The key question is why did the installer on the Etch RC1 CDROM not
install all the dependencies of the xserver-xorg? Only three were
installed: x-server-xorg-core, and two others which I did not need:
x-server-imputs-acecad and x-server-video-apm. The ones I did need I
had to install myself.
A few days later I used the same build of Etch RC1 to install it from
scratch on my laptop. All the dependencies of x-server-xorg were
installed, and on first boot X.org was loaded without needing any manual
configuration on my part.
Ken Heard
Toronto, Canada
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