[plug] Debian installation

[ryan at is.as.geeky.as]

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