[NMLUG] X on Debian

[jmdelapp at delapp.com (Mars DeLapp)]

I have had LOTS of problems getting Xfree86 to work on various machines. Some 
old, some new hardware.

The best solution that I found was to use the very latest Debian Sarge Install CD
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/

Some of the solutions that I found:

Had to have the very latest XFree86 (4.3?) to work with the Intel motherboard 
(new hardware). This version (or later) is now in Sarge.

Changed BIOS video ram setting to match what was set in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

Boot Knoppix and let it figure out the proper video settings. Copy stuff from 
the Knoppix generated conf file.

Mars

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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