* J Y <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030905 16:30]: > Hi I am new to debian, but have used those big commercial distros. > I installed 3.0 but am not having any luck getting X to start. I reinstalled several > times taking a lot of time checking the packages. But login just leaves me at the > command line. I type startx and get this response: Build Operating system: linux > 2.4.17i686 (ELF) module loader present (==) log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", > (EE) Unable to locate/open config file > (EE) Error from xf86Handle Config File () > Fatal Server error > no screens found > > XIO: Fatal IO error 104 (connection reset by peer) > on X server > "0.0" after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 > events remaining.
You need to configure the xserver-xfree86 package. To get some hardware detection try installing the discover package first HOWTO % apt-get install discover % dpkg-reconfigure -plow xserver-xfree86 Cheers, Nick. -- Debian testing/unstable Linux twofish 2.6.0-test3-looxt93c2 i686 GNU/Linux
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