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[NMLUG] X on Debian
"no screens" can mean a lot of things. Most commonly - the mouse is not
installed or mouse drivers are not loaded.
If you cat /dev/psaux or /dev/input/mice and move the mouse around, you
should see garbage appear on a term. If you don't - you have no working
mouse.
Aaron Birenboim wrote:
>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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