On Mon, 11 Aug 2014, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 10 aug 14, 17:30:20, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > I'm posting to the list instead of privately sending it to you, so > > others can comment or correct errors. > > You asked for it :p > > > III. INSTALL X > > > > A. Quick & Dirty, but bloated: 'apt-get install xorg' > > B. Lean & Mean: 'apt-get install xserver-xorg-core xinit' > > Are you sure about this? As far as I can tell this will not install
For B? Yes. Basically, that's all I installed to get X running, but without a window manager, you couldn't do anything with it. The window manager came next. I let apt-get take care of dependencies. I did do a lot of studying on "easy" "minimal" xserver installs, and that option was a basic one and satisfied my needs. "Recommends" were not by default installed, but I did take note of them for possible later install. I also did 3 or 4 test installs on VirtualBox running on a Fedora 12 host on the same machine I was going to install Wheezy on. The whole testing process along with the research took about 6 weeks before I did the real thing. At the time, Wheezy was still testing. I did the real install as a dual boot with Fedora 12 when installer was a beta. > any of the xserver-xorg-video- or xserver-xorg-input- packages. One > would need at a minimum xserver-xorg-input-evdev and the -video- > package corresponding to the video adapter (or one of -vesa or > -fbdev, but these give poor performance). IIRC, the base install (terminal only) installed the default video driver for my nVidia-based card -- nouveau. That was before I did anything involving X. After I had everything set up the way I wanted and working, several months later I installed the proprietary nVidia driver replacing nouveau. You might not believe it, but I basically had no problems with this step-by-step install, and the system just hums along quite nicely. Very snappy. Very stable. Never crashed. B -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140811184740.2f5f2...@debian7.boseck208.net
