X/Gnome: screen goes black after being idle (and stays that way)

2004-02-21 Thread John Christian
Hello again, X and Gnome are up and running great now ... except for one particular problem ... The screen goes black after being idle for a few minutes, and there's seemingly nothing I can do to get it to wake up. (and under normal circumstances, it responds to key/mouse events just fine) This

Re: Fwd: Xfree86: "no screens found" with default configuration

2004-02-19 Thread John Christian
Kent West wrote: Andreas Janssen wrote: Hello John Christian (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: [XFree does not work] Ok ... I've gone through my config this way, looking for any obvious badnesses ... I'm using the i810 driver as per the instructions on Intel's site f

Xfree86: "no screens found" with default configuration

2004-02-18 Thread John Christian
I've installed the xfree86 packages plus gnome, and so far haven't touched /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 generated by debconf, but it's giving me the following error on startx: fatal error: no screens found. And I certainly have a 'Section "Screen"' in my config file. I'm not sure what else it could

"Wicked" resolver error

2004-02-11 Thread John Christian
Ok, got my Packages.gz problem fixed ... now I've run into another barrier ... So, I've gotten the base network install done, and have re-booted onto the kernel running on my hard drive, which brings me to the inital configuration menu. After flipping through the usual inital setup menus (roo

Corrupt Packages.gz while attempting network install

2004-02-08 Thread John Christian
Hello, I'm trying to install 'woody' on a i386 machine, booting and otherwise prepping from the "compact-3.0.23-netinst.iso" image. Now, I've tried the standard woody install as well with the same problem, leading me to believe it's not something with my network config. So ... I can't seem to