| Jeff Abrahamson on 5 Feb 2004 02:11:02 -0000 |
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On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 07:28:35PM -0500, sean finney wrote: > [51 lines, 389 words, 2246 characters] Top characters: etoianrd > > 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 Jeff Abrahamson <http://www.purple.com/jeff/> GPG fingerprint: 1A1A BA95 D082 A558 A276 63C6 16BF 8C4C 0D1D AE4B Attachment:
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