[plug] Debian installation

[Dave Dartnall]

ryan at is.as.geeky.as wrote:

>Along with Sol's advice, the best way to get XF86-4 configured I've
>found is to use the xserver-xfree86 package and to use the command:
>
>dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86
>
>It has the majority of cards supported.  You'll see the config menus
>when you install the package anyway - but if you want to run it again
>later to configure it - that's the command.  You can do that with other
>xservers too btw, i just prefer xserver-xfree86 for gettings things
>going easily.
>
>Ryan
>
>On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 13:44, Sol wrote:
>  
>
>>Mmm. It's hard to for me to say for sure without a bit more info. 
>>[ NB: I'll put shell commands in square brackets like this ]
>>So first things first: do you have x-window-system and x-window-system-core 
>>installed? [ dpkg -l x-window* ] (if you get "ii x-window-system 4.1.0-16" 
>>you've got it. If you need to get it [ apt-get install x-window-system ]).
>>Have you run either XF86Setup or xf86config, or did you run xf86 configuration 
>>during installation?
>>Have you got a file /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 ? If you don't then you will need to 
>>[ XF86Setup ] or [ xf86config ]. Make sure you know all your video card, 
>>monitor, etc hardware to enter during configuration.
>>
>>See how far you get with that first.
>>
>>good luck,
>>sol 
>>    
>>
Thanks to both of you - yes Sol, I had the Xwindow system system and did 
run xf86config with entry of all the hardware parameters without siccess.
I also tried dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 which produced error 
messages which I did not understand. In the end I dumped the whole 
installation, reformatted the partitions and reinstalled a minimum 
system. Bingo!
Now I'm installing packages one by one as required, and struggling to 
get the system to recognise the modem but I won't worry the list again 
unless I'm completely stumped.

thanks again
Dave Dartnall