under potato i had X (and kde2 thanks to some unofficial
sources.list items) up and running like a champ. occasionally
konqueror would die colorfully (hit alt-left to go back a few
pages and boom, only one desktop, no window borders...)
and X windows worked fine under potato.
now i've "dist-upgrade"d to woody and there are a plethora of
technical questions i'm supposed to know the answers to, in
order to get X going. such as--
select the desired X server driver
please enter the video card's bus identifier
enter the amount of memory used by your video card
use kernel framebuffer interface?
select the XKB rule set to use
choose your mouse port
choose the entry that best describes your mouse
write default dri section to config file?
...to name a few...
SO: how do i find out what those answers should be?
e.g. what makes a mouse a ps/2 mouse and not ImPS/2? what the
heck is a DRI device? how can you tell, by looking at the case,
whether the mouse port would be called mouse or ttyS0 or psaux?
(i finally figured out how to get to the questions again: it's
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86
that does the asking. and i have no clue for the answers... :( )
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i try anyway, to do "startx" and get bumpkis.
here's the log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log" after trying plain
ol' "vga" monitor type and generic "huh?" responses from most of
the other questions:
<snip>
(==) VGA(0): Virtual size is 320x200 (pitch 320)
(**) VGA(0): Built-in mode "Generic 320x200 default mode": 12.6 MHz (scaled from 25.2
MHz), 31.5 kHz, 70.2 Hz (VScan)
(II) VGA(0): Modeline "Generic 320x200 default mode" 12.59 320 336 384 400 200 206
207 224 vscan 2 -hsync +vsync
(++) VGA(0): DPI set to (100, 100)
(II) Loading sub module "fb"
(II) LoadModule: "fb"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libfb.a
(II) Module fb: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: XFree86 ANSI C Emulation, version 0.1
(II) do I need RAC? No, I don't.
(II) resource ranges after preInit:
[0] 0 0 0xe1000000 - 0xe17fffff (0x800000) MS[B]
[1] 0 0 0xe0000000 - 0xe0003fff (0x4000) MS[B]
[2] -1 0 0xffe00000 - 0xffffffff (0x200000) MX[B](B)
[3] -1 0 0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[B]E(B)
[4] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B]
[5] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B]
[6] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B]
[7] -1 0 0xe1000000 - 0xe17fffff (0x800000) MX[B](B)
[8] -1 0 0xe0000000 - 0xe0003fff (0x4000) MX[B](B)
[9] 0 0 0x000a0000 - 0x000affff (0x10000) MS[B]
[10] 0 0 0x000b0000 - 0x000b7fff (0x8000) MS[B](OprU)
[11] 0 0 0x000b8000 - 0x000bffff (0x8000) MS[B](OprU)
[12] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B]
[13] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B]
[14] -1 0 0x00006400 - 0x000064ff (0x100) IX[B]E
[15] -1 0 0x0000f000 - 0x0000f0ff (0x100) IX[B]E
[16] 0 0 0x000003b0 - 0x000003bb (0xc) IS[B]
[17] 0 0 0x000003c0 - 0x000003df (0x20) IS[B]
(WW) System lacks support for changing MTRRs
Fatal server error:
AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0
When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send
the full server output, not just the last messages.
This can be found in the log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log".
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seems odd that i feel more like a newbie now, after three years
of debian, unable to get X working -- when on potato it was a
snap (or maybe i just got REEEEAL lucky)...?
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I use Debian/GNU Linux version 2.2;
Linux server 2.2.17 #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000 i586 unknown
DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #103 from Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
:
Trying to CREATE A CRONTAB FOR THE LAST DAY OF THE MONTH? Best
to put all the logic within the crontab itself (a Good Thing,
since you then only have to look in one place to find it):
1 0 28-31 * * [ "$(date +%d -d +1day)" -eq "1" ] && /path/to/script args
Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...
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