[NMLUG] X on Debian

[mike at garfias.org (Mike Garfias)]

Aaron -

Its a bit easier these days, but not much.  

One quick thing that occurs to me: do you have the ATI framebuffer module
loaded?  

Other than that, I'd need to be on the console to help...

Aaron Birenboim spoke forth with the blessed manuscript:
> 
> I have never done Xfree86 4, and enough things have
> changed that I'm lost.
> 
> I have several 3.0r1 stable (woody?) stations, none
> of which have X running yet.   There must be an
> easier way to do it than to research many hundreds
> of WWW pages on the internals of xf86 r4.
> 
> When installing X under debian, I select the ATI driver
> and frame buffer as suggested.
> When I try to run X, I get "no screens"
> 
> The debian docs just point me to tools like
> xf86cfg, which don't seem to help anything.
> 
> Have things gotten easier for a basic X install,
> or is it still has hard to do for debian as it
> was for Slackware in 1995?   I just don't have
> that much time to tinker with it these days.
> I'll switch to SuSE or Mandrake first.... and I really
> don't want to do that.
> 
>      aaron
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