Jeff Abrahamson on 5 Feb 2004 02:11:02 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] X config, woody, sarge, and knoppix


On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 07:28:35PM -0500, sean finney wrote:
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> On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 05:50:15PM -0500, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> > The machine he's using is running debian woody (stable), works great,
> > but X is not configured, and neither xf86setup nor X -config work with
> > that hardware (X reports).
> 
> debian woody is a little old, i'd recommend doing a mix of woody/sarge
> (if not sarge/sid), especially if this is going to be a desktop
> workstation.  kde/gnome in woody are both pretty ugly.

I've upgraded to sarge.  This only brings X up to 4.1.0-10, but I'll
try it tomorrow.  I also apt-got read-edid and mdetect, which I didn't
know about but apt-cache show xserver-xfree86 told me about.

I'm unclear on how to upgrade things selectively.  How do I do this if
I decide I really want to mess with a bit of sid.  I don't want my
boss' machine running sid fully, I'm already a bit wary of sarge.


Thanks for all the other advice (and Alex, too).

More tomorrow, when I can get into the office where the machine is.  X
just doesn't like to auto-configure without being logged in on console
as root.

-- 
 Jeff

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