[Sussex] The woes of trying to install Debian woody.

[John D.]

On Friday 29 Aug 2003 1:20 pm, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 12:15, John D. wrote:
> > But always at the bottom I get
> > (EE)No devices detected
> >
> > Fatal Server Error
> > No screens found
> >
> > This is followed by some info about bug reports then
> >
> > X connection to :0.0 Broken (explicit kill or server shutdown)
>
> Had a similar problem with Gentoo when I emerged X, basically, go
> through ./xf86configurator and setup your screen there, then check the
> path to startx, then try it, it worked for me... :p
>
> Matt

Well I tried to run the xf86config, and had to answer all of the questions on 
a "hit or miss" basis as I have been unable to extract the various parts of 
information via either mandrake or windows.

At the end, it didn't matter whether I got the answers right or wrong as it 
wouldn't open or write the info to the xf86 config file.

any other Ideas

regards

John