On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 22:33, Rachel Andrew wrote: > I got slightly further by going into dselect and removing as much of kde as > I could find. > > It then installed Woody quite happily and it booted. But no X. So I > downloaded XFree864.1.0.1, installed it, ran > XFree86 - configure > > tried to run xf86config/xf86cfg and get 'command not found' and there ends > my knowledge. I've only set up X manually once before and that was when I > installed Potato, so I have absolutely no idea why this isn't working or > where to look to fix it. I've looked at the online docs and see no reason > why this shouldn't work. As fare as I can remember potato runs by default on XFree 3.3.x and the config files of 3.3.x and 4.x.x are not compatible. I had the same problem at that time. The tools you mentioned are deprecated, but you can run 'XFree86 --configure' somehow:
Manual page XFree86(1x): -configure When this option is specified, the X server loads all video driver modules, probes for available hardware, and writes out an initial XF86Config(5x) file based on what was detected. This option cur rently has some problems on some platforms, but in most cases it is a good way to bootstrap the con figuration process. This option is only available when the server is run as root (i.e, with real-uid 0). I think that is the way I have resolved that problem ... > Should I just trash this install and start over with my CD? No, too much work and I guess you will have the same problems ... Bye, Steffen