In tasksel, the X package is at the bottom. It is not the Desktop Environment, but the server for that environment.
-- Sincerely, David Smead http://www.amplepower.com. On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Dennis Krinke wrote: > Last night at my Linux SIG meeting, > I attempted to demonstrate x-windows installation > for Debian woody. We already had loaded woody base. > > I had practiced at home and thought I was prepared, > But it did not work on our computer club computer; > I was not able to setup x-windows. > > I have two questions: > 1) what is the most straightforward way > to load x-windows packages? and > 2) how do we get x-windows working on this machine? > > 1) I thought that if I ran tasksel and selected > Desktop environment, that it would load all > of the required packages for x-windows. > It only loaded one package, I forget which, but > it had nothing to do with x-windows. > So, I went into dselect and selected: > xserver-xfree86 xfree86-common twm xfs > xserver-common xfonts-base > and all of the required dependencies. > We loaded some software, but no x-windows. > Then I went into tasksel and selected > Desktop Environment again and this time > it added many more packages, but no x-windows. > I kept expecting to see Debian configuration > screens for x-windows, like I had seen at home > in practice, but never did see them > for our computer club computer. > What is the name of that configuration program? > Can it be run manually, if not automatically > run by dselect? > > I tried a few more iterations through dselect > but was not able to to figure out which > packages were required. > > Here is a note that may be important: > I was loading software from the first three > CDs out of the 8 CDs in the woody distribution. > That is, I was only using packages that > are included in the first three CDs. > There is a reason for this: > I am burning these CDs myself and I am > cramped on disk space - I only have room for > the first three CDs that I have already > downloaded. > The woody build was dated Feb 27 of this year. > > 2) How do I get x-windows setup? x-windows > makes three attempts to load and then stops. > I am attaching the /var/log/XFree86.0.log . > It gives: (EE) No devices detected. , > even though if previously seems to have > detected an NVidia GeForce2 MX DDR rev 178 . > Is there some package on CDs 4-8 that is > required for GeForce2? > > TIA > Dennis Krinke > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]