On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 10:17:29PM -0500, Stephen Anthony wrote: > I just apt-get upgraded yesterday for the first time in two weeks. I'm > not certain if it was the XFree86-common package, or an xserver package > or what, but some package in that family gave me some sort of prompt in > the configuration stage telling me that I had my choice of using > automatic checking to determine what x settings to use, or I could keep > using the options generated by a script, and that both should in theory > work, but sometimes only one or the other would. I chose to use the > automatic checking for configuration. The same dialog series also asked > some other things like whether the keyboard was pc101, or a pc104 or > pc105... Upon rebooting, x will attempt to start, but will fail. I have > tried manually doing startx, and the same result occurs. Some basic > system stats: > Debian unstable > kernel 2.4 > 3dfx Voodoo 3 card
i solved this by launching dexconf by hand, it generated the correct XF86Config-4 file. Apparently the problems comes from the question being pre-installation debconf questions, that get asked and the information stored, but the XF86Config-4 file never get's generated. Friendly, Sven Luther
