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| theshewolf 2004-02-04, 8:58 pm |
| OK, I'm stubborn.
Red Hat was just too easy to set up, and I wanted more of a challenge, so I installed Debian.
All right, everything is SUPPOSEDLY installed, including the newest, nifiest packages for debian from FTP sites. I boot and login without problems. However, I would LOVE to be able to run a shell of some sort.
For those in the know, this is probably an obvious question, but how do I start one? PLEASE don't tell me to type "startx", as I get an error everytime I try this. I REALLY want to run KDE, and I told Debian to install that package for me.
What am I missing in this equation, please?
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| Boulware5 2004-02-05, 1:24 am |
| You want to run X? When you say shell, people will think of something like BASH, which is a command line interface. But to start x, the command is just startx. You got to make sure X is configured. The configuration file is in /etc/X11/XF86Config. There are several utilities that can configure it for you, such as XF86Setup, xf86config (my favorite) and the XFree86 -configure command (this will attempt to configure X automatically for you and generate an XF86Config file in /root/XF86Config.new. If this suits you ok, move that to /etc/X11/XF86Config.) |
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