CD access OK but new X86 problem

[Jianan Huang]

Hi folks,

Thanks for the couple of 'mount' commands. With them, I was able to mount
the CD .iso file as a filesystem. I then select 'filesystem' as a
installation source during apt-setup. After that, using apt-get to install
packages was a breeze.

I installed x-window-system. But it wouldn't run. When I do a 'startx',
there was an error message:

"(EE) Unable to open/locate config file.

Fatal server error:
no screen find"

I searched through /etc/X11. There wasn't any X86Config file. There was a
XftConfig command script file.

What's wrong?

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[Florian Ernst]

Hello Jianan!

Jianan Huang wrote:

> [...]
> I installed x-window-system. But it wouldn't run. When I do a
> 'startx', there was an error message:
>
> "(EE) Unable to open/locate config file.
>
> Fatal server error:
> no screen find"
>
> I searched through /etc/X11. There wasn't any X86Config file. There
> was a XftConfig command script file.
>
> What's wrong?

Well, you didn't generate the config.

Take a look at
[url]http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tune.en.html#s-xsrvr[/url]

HTH,
Flo


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[Andreas Janssen]

Hello

Jianan Huang wrote:

> I installed x-window-system. But it wouldn't run. When I do a 'startx',
> there was an error message:
>
> "(EE) Unable to open/locate config file.
>
> Fatal server error:
> no screen find"
>
> I searched through /etc/X11. There wasn't any X86Config file. There was
> a XftConfig command script file.
>
> What's wrong?

Well, it is obvious: you don't have a config file for your X server. To
solve this problem, you have several choices. I recommend to use debconf
to configure XFree. Type "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" as root.
Debconf will ask you some questions, among them which driver to use for
your graphic card, what protocol to use for your mouse and some info
about your monitor. The other way is to use the configuration tools that
come with XFree, for example xf86config and xf86cfg.

Debconf will name the config file XF86Config-4, xf86cfg will name it
XF86Config. X will try to use XF86Config-4 first and only look for the
other one if it can't find the first one.

best regards
Andreas Janssen

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[Danthevb6man@aol.com]

In a message dated 7/17/03 9:50:28 AM Central Daylight Time,
[email]andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com[/email] writes:

> Debconf will name the config file XF86Config-4, xf86cfg will name it
> XF86Config. X will try to use XF86Config-4 first and only look for the
> other one if it can't find the first one.

That explains a lot! I just got a Woody system up in the last week, and I
messed up the debconf configuration while installing all the files with dselect
and tried a million times to configure X with xf86cfg AND xf86config, but it
didn't look like it was doing anything. Thanks for this information--now I can
get it working properly (hopefully). Thanks a lot!

Daniel Strommen