I recently made the switch from windows to Linux by installing Debian
on a side partition. I think I got it all installed properly but I
can't get the Xserver to run. (I don't know exactly what I'm using
since I just did an install all programs thing in the dselect) It
gives me some error about screen not being found then asks me to fix
it by inputting the root password. Says it's fixed and it's going to
restart the xserver. Restarts the xserver and same error occurs. Any
ideas on how to fix this? (I know very little about linux, just
recently been introduced to it but I've always been in a x window
session and I don't know what to do without it.) Thanks!!

Mike

Hello

Mike Shim (<mikeisages@cox.net>) wrote:

> I recently made the switch from windows to Linux by installing Debian
> on a side partition. I think I got it all installed properly but I
> can't get the Xserver to run. (I don't know exactly what I'm using
> since I just did an install all programs thing in the dselect) It
> gives me some error about screen not being found then asks me to fix
> it by inputting the root password. Says it's fixed and it's going to
> restart the xserver. Restarts the xserver and same error occurs. Any
> ideas on how to fix this? (I know very little about linux, just
> recently been introduced to it but I've always been in a x window
> session and I don't know what to do without it.) Thanks!!

Tell us more, including:

- the version of Debian you use
- the type of graphic card you use
- the exact error message (all lines from /var/log/XFre86.0.log
beginning with (EE))
- the last 10 or 15 lines from that file

Also make sure all necessary packages are installed:

apt-get install x-window-system-core

You can use debconf to reconfigure XFree:

dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86

If you feel that dselect is complicated, maybe try aptitude:

apt-get install aptitude

best regards
Andreas Janssen

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