This one time, at band camp, will trillich said: > 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?
OK. Try cat /proc/pci to find out what video card is in your box - then you can look through the docs that came with xserver-xfree86 to find out which driver to use with it. For now, ignore the questions about bus identifier and memory - leave them blank. They'll only be needed if X can't detect your card automagically. Framebuffer makes setting up X a little easier, but all the graphics are sloooow. You'll need to find the refresh settings for your monitor somewhere - owner's manual or manufacturer's website are always good places to start. XKB ruleset is, IIRC, kind of straightforward - regular or USB? What country? Mouse - see below. DRI can't hurt, go ahead. > 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? ttyS0 is a serial mouse, and psaux is a PS2 mouse. PS2 mice have the little round connector, and serial mice have the, well, serial connector that's kind of rhombus shaped. As for which protocol, again, read the docs for your mouse. If I can't figure it out, I try one and then another untilit stops jumping around. If you have gpm running, you can use gpmdata instead. > (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... :( ) HTH, -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | It's not really a rule--it's more like | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | a trend. -- Larry Wall in | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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