'evening all,
having dabbled with various distros, as well as debian-related
applications
(fink), i decided that it was finally time to give the mighty debian a
spin.
However, I am having problems starting up x11--despite going through
xf86conf
several times, and selecting the lowest requirements, as well as higher
ones,
when I run startx, i fade to black, and after a few moments, am spit out
with
several warnings.
The odd part is, that I *can* boot up x11 if i run it using
%startx -- -depth 8,
but when i set the resolution to 8bit in xf86conf, I get the same error I
have
always gotten so far.
the last errors i get have something to do with font rendering, before a
signal
is caught..10 or 11, i believe - and then i get the standard bug report
request.
My hardware specs are:
powerbook g4, 12inch, 867mhz, 640mb of RAM, 60gb HD, with no macos--just
pure
Debian. Video card should be an nvidia geforce, with 32mb of ram.
Any suggestions? Any help would be most appreciated.
-D
AFAIK the xf86conf utility creates a file called xf86config and debian uses
xf86config-4 so you either need to copy the relevant parts of the xf86config
file to the xf86config-4 file, or use the debian way dpkg-reconfigure
xserver-xfree86. Note this will only work if you have not manually edited
the config file, if you have follow the instructions at the to of the file
(/etc/X11/xf86config-4) before running dpkg-reconfigure.
You may also want to consider using the nv driver (or the nvidia driver for
3D) to get better depth settings anyway.
HTH
Wackojacko
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