[ale] Debian Install Woes

[Mazukna, Thomas]

the debian way is:

dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86

Tomas

-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Day [mailto:jasonday at worldnet.att.net]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 11:06 AM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] Debian Install Woes


On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 07:41:12AM -0800, Herman, Izzie wrote:
> It goes straight to a console...but when i try to do "startx", it blinks a couple of times, then goes back to my login....would this be due to being in runlevel 2?

This means X isn't configured properly.  It has nothing to do with the
runlevel.  Try running xf86config as root.

What kind of video card do you have?
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