hehehe, true true! I didn't really "need" anything, but some guys at the office and I have been testing linux distros, just for the fun of it. We thought that a debian release 3.0 would hopefully be as sophisticated as perhaps a Redhat release and be able to detect and correctly setup our monitor and video card for the X Window system. It was just a hope. About 5 other distros have been able to handle this very well. Although the gdm package failed during the install and I think i saw that the package stands for "gnome display manager". I thought that I may give the install another try to see if it can setup the package correctly this time. Just for posterity.
-- Brad Bendily - CNA Network Specialist Southeastern Louisiana University Phone 985.549.3643 Fax 985.549.5777 On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Mat Branyon wrote: > to get it to work, the command is XF86config .... hope you know A LOT > about your monitor and videocard (vsync, hsync, and video card > chipset). im not sure, but it might have xconfigurator, which might be > a bit nicer. who needs X anyway? you got mutt, vi, and bitchx, what > else do you need? =P > > --mat > > On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 01:38, Brad Bendily wrote: > > Isn't there some debian guru's on this list? > > What kind of magic do you have to do to get Debian's > > Xwindow system to work? > > Mind you this is the woody version 3.0 of the www.debian.org > > distro. We had a fairly generic test PC with a Geforce2 MX card > > and the GDM didn't install correctly. After that it seemed that > > everything went down hill. > > > > > > -- > > Brad Bendily - CNA > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
