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orangepoptart
03-21-2004, 02:09 PM
As you can guess I just got debian a few days ago and installed it. :p I am pretty sure I did everything right in the install phase but, and this is a big but, when I booted up my new debian box even before I logged in it said it couldn't start x server. I think I might have set it up to do a graphical login so thats why. It asked me if I wanted to see the output so I could find the problem, so I pushed yes and it gave me ..... NOTHING. Then another blue text screen came up and asked if I wanted to configure I said yes then it did whatever it wanted in the background and restarted x server. Then the whole process started over again. I've just been using text only since I can't get the gui working. Has anyone had a problem like this?
Note: Durring instlation I think I might have gotten the locales wrong since im new I didn't know what that was. Hope that isn't a big thing I missed. Help is greatly appreciated since im typing on my friends machine right now and she wants to get back on now. Help is greatly appreciated!!
Hayl
03-21-2004, 02:23 PM
the first thing to look at when you have a misconfigured X server, is teh log file: /var/log/XFree86.0.log... that file will tell you exactly what is wrong.
orangepoptart
03-21-2004, 03:12 PM
as strange as it may sound.... theres no file by that name in that directory. It may be unrelated but it also sais gdm is also running when I type gdm. So gnome is running but x servers not right?
je_fro
03-21-2004, 03:39 PM
Google your monitor and get the Horiz and Vert refresh rates.
Find out what kind of video card...
Run (as root) the program:
/usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config
give it all the information...
your mouse will most likely be /dev/psaux
Let it save the file where it wants to and restart gdm

Good Luck!
orangepoptart
03-21-2004, 03:51 PM
My mouse is a usb but its going through a ps/2 converter... so would it be ps then? :rolleyes: I should know this already:o
Hayl
03-21-2004, 03:57 PM
Originally posted by orangepoptart
My mouse is a usb but its going through a ps/2 converter... so would it be ps then? :rolleyes: I should know this already:o

yes, PS/2
orangepoptart
03-23-2004, 06:42 PM
NOW... that I got that configured and tried startx it is saying im missing X in directory /usr/X11R6/bin/
teeitup
03-23-2004, 07:57 PM
X setup the debian way (http://home.comcast.net/~srvffl/linuxstuff/X_howto.html)

Good Luck,