Hi, * Mingzhou Nie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [021212 10:23]: > Hello, all, > > I'm a recent Linux user and decided to try on Debian. Installed "woody" and > installation process went just fine. However, I can not start x. > > My video card is ATI radeon 7500 / 64MB SDRAM. I understand woody comes with > XFree86 4.1.0 which just start support radeon chipset but not "RV200 QW". I > also saw a November thread about the same problem. It seem I have to > options. > > - Install XFree86 4.2.0 using its XInstall.sh > - Add this line to your sources.list and install XFree86 4.2 > > #XFree 4.2 > deb http://people.debian.org/~branden/ sid/$(ARCH)/
If you want to upgrade X, then go for option 2. Use Brandens .deb. > Not sure which one is better. Can someone list step by step instructions? Choose 2. However I think these are now at: http://people.debian.org/~frankie/debian woody/x421 So put the above in your /etc/sources.list, then do. # apt-get update # apt-get install xserver-xfree86 HTH, however YMV, Nick. -- Debian testing/unstable Linux onefish 2.4.19-lavienx #1 Sat Sep 21 19:58:12 EST 2002 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
