Doing a bit of advocay, I've managed to convince a friend to try Debian on his newly put-together PC for a bit, while he saves up the £165 WinXP tax.
Unfortunately, I'm not doing a great job. I did a netinstall from debian-installer (12-01-04, FWIW, and it *rocks*!), but can't seem to get X to come up at all. I'll happily post any config files here, but (off the top of my head) the problem is that X bombs after a couple of seconds with "no screens found". He's got a NVidia FX mumble in there. If I could get the damn thing to work with even the vesa driver, I'd know where to start - but I can't. I've got mdetect, read-edid and discover installed (all before apt-get installing xserver-xfree86), but this doesn't seem to help. So - o any AGP gotchas I should look out for? I've only installed on a PCI system before .. o What's the lowest common denominator driver that I should be starting with to get over the absolutely-no-GUI-accessible hurdle? o What files can I post here to help you help me? TIA - I really need some advice! jc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
