Re: X Windows not installed

2006-06-26 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 00:29:01 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Michael M. wrote: > > Florian Kulzer wrote: > > >Make sure you have the packages "discover1" (for 2.6 kernels) or > > >"discover" (for 2.4 kernels) installed, as well as "xresprobe", > > > > Oh, so *that's* the difference between 'discover

Re: X Windows not installed

2006-06-25 Thread Joey Hess
Michael M. wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: > >Make sure you have the packages "discover1" (for 2.6 kernels) or > >"discover" (for 2.4 kernels) installed, as well as "xresprobe", > > Oh, so *that's* the difference between 'discover' and 'discover1'! I No, neither discover1 nor discover 2 are kern

Re: X Windows not installed

2006-06-25 Thread Michael M.
Florian Kulzer wrote: Make sure you have the packages "discover1" (for 2.6 kernels) or "discover" (for 2.4 kernels) installed, as well as "xresprobe", "mdetect", "read-edid" and, if applicable, "laptop-detect". Then run (as root) dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and you should get a proper confi

Re: X Windows not installed

2006-06-25 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 16:58:14 +0800, Dr Bean wrote: > On Sun, 25 Jun 2006, Thibaut Paumard wrote: > > > Le dimanche 25 juin 2006 ? 09:28 +0800, Dr Bean a ?crit : > > > > > Also give some details about your system (video hardware). > > > > Where would I get that. dmesg says just: > > > Console

Re: X Windows not installed

2006-06-25 Thread Dr Bean
On Sun, 25 Jun 2006, Thibaut Paumard wrote: > Le dimanche 25 juin 2006 ? 09:28 +0800, Dr Bean a ?crit : > > > Also give some details about your system (video hardware). > > Where would I get that. dmesg says just: > > Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 > The sources of information for that would be: ..

Re: X Windows not installed

2006-06-24 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Le dimanche 25 juin 2006 à 09:28 +0800, Dr Bean a écrit : > On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, Thibaut Paumard wrote: > > > Le jeudi 22 juin 2006 ? 20:03 +0800, Dr Bean a ?crit : > > > I don't think I have X Windows installed. How do I now install > > > it? > > [...] > > > I have now a perfectly good console-ba

Re: X Windows not installed

2006-06-24 Thread Dr Bean
On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, Thibaut Paumard wrote: > Le jeudi 22 juin 2006 ? 20:03 +0800, Dr Bean a ?crit : > > I don't think I have X Windows installed. How do I now install > > it? > [...] > > I have now a perfectly good console-based linux system, but exec > > startx doesn't give me X Windows. This i

Re: X Windows not installed

2006-06-22 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 20:03:33 +0800, Dr Bean wrote: > I don't think I have X Windows installed. How do I now install > it? > > Installing sid with installer-i386, I was given a choice about what > kind of setup I wanted, eg a personal workstation, an Internet > server, etc. > > With the cursor

Re: X Windows not installed

2006-06-22 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Le jeudi 22 juin 2006 à 20:03 +0800, Dr Bean a écrit : > I don't think I have X Windows installed. How do I now install > it? [...] > I have now a perfectly good console-based linux system, but exec > startx doesn't give me X Windows. But you do have startx? Do you get a "command not found" error,

X Windows not installed

2006-06-22 Thread Dr Bean
I don't think I have X Windows installed. How do I now install it? Installing sid with installer-i386, I was given a choice about what kind of setup I wanted, eg a personal workstation, an Internet server, etc. With the cursor on the personal workstation, I hit Enter and was surprised by the inst