On Sat, 08 Aug 2009 12:00:16 -0400, Damon Chesser in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: > On Sat, 2009-08-08 at 09:19 -0400, S. Fishpaste wrote: >> Greetings; >> >> New install using the net-install imaage from Debian.org, installed the >> base-system only (no desktop), changed my sources list to 'testing' ass the >> net-install defaults to the current stable. During the net-install I >> selected the xfce4 desktop. >> >> Everything seemed to go normally except I wasn't prompted to configure >> xserver-xorg before rebooting. Consequently it installed gdm and on reboot >> the system freezes shortly after starting gdm. >> >> So I purged gdm and attempted to 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg'. This >> prompts for keyboard, and language input, but no video prompts. Wierd, I >> thought that was the way to reconfigure xserver. >> >> I'm not that familiar with the Linux GUI as I usually run my GNU/Linux boxes >> as GUI-less servers. >> >> So how do I get xfce4 up and running in Xorg ? >> >> Thanks >> > > Well, that method USED to work for selecting video settings. It no > longer does, everything is done automagically now. I just installed a > Sid that did not even have an xorg.conf file. I had to make a basic > xorg.conf file to get my X working correctly. You don't have to make > all if it up, just the parts of what ever stanza you might need. For > example, > > Section "Device" > Identifier "Device0" > Driver "nvidia" > EndSection > > The above might be your entire xorg.conf file. > > To start (and thus test xfce4 and X) you could run startxfce4 and see if > it comes up or not. If not, start at the x11 logs. You might have to > modify manually your xorg.conf file. > > HTH, still waking up, I tried hard to make sense.
Hi thanks it does. I have tried most of what you've suggested as my research indicated that a blank xorg.conf is something to be expected,however HAL didn't figure out any of my display hardware at all and I'm using a P3 Toshiba laptop so you'd think it wouldn't be this difficult. Not like it's ultra new hardware. Sarge worked great on this but the first time I updgraded to Lenny was OK but from Lenny to testing completely borked a working install in terms of a working Xserver-xorg config. Not at all like debian usually behaves. ;-) I'll keep plugging away, thanks for your suggestions. Cheers, Steve Toronto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
