[IBuyJunk]

Not having good luck doing so. I have a base Debian 506 system with no GUI. I've seen a few guides on installing Flux on Debian ... I'm not having good luck. I get an X error and it won't launch.

I'd like to have it boot, automatically, to Fluxbox when I turn on the computer. I am usually SSH'd into it and use samba shared on it. Rarely am I using a desktop environment but I wouldn't mind having one.

Help

 

[Zaiger]

Try another distro like Arch linux or linux from scratch.

 

[Jimi]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zaiger Try another distro like Arch linux or linux from scratch.

That's not really good advice.

Have you gotten X to work with any other DE/WM?

 

[Zaiger]

Or try some noob distro like ubuntu

 

[mushroomboy]

do you just want a desktop? It should be just "apt-get install fluxbox", are you using stable/testing/unstable?

 

[IBuyJunk]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zaiger Try another distro like Arch linux or linux from scratch.

I like Debian

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jimi That's not really good advice. Have you gotten X to work with any other DE/WM?

Haven't tried

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zaiger Or try some noob distro like ubuntu

I'm a Solaris admin ... I like to think I'm comfortable. However, I *do* run Ubuntu on my netbook because it's the most friendly installing from USB flash memory.

Quote:

Originally Posted by mushroomboy do you just want a desktop? It should be just "apt-get install fluxbox", are you using stable/testing/unstable?

Tried that, lacking X

 

[Jimi]

http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=5382
Has a pretty good summary of running through a fluxbox install

You should post what X errors you're getting.

Code:

# dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

might help if you screwed up a configuration on X

 

[mushroomboy]

if your lacking x try "sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg"

If your lacking after that there's another problem. =( Something isn't liking the configuration. =( You on stable/testing/unstable?

 

[IBuyJunk]

Apparently it's something with my Intel X3100 graphics card?
I'm using stable.

 

[mushroomboy]

Try adding a testing repo and updating the xserver/flux files and see if that helps?

 

[Jimi]

Have you installed the intel driver?

Code:

# apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-intel

 

[IBuyJunk]

Well I feel stupid. Apparently it was defaulting to 1280x1024 and the monitor I had it hooked up to can only support 1024x768. Works now

 

[mushroomboy]

Quote:

Originally Posted by IBuyJunk Well I feel stupid. Apparently it was defaulting to 1280x1024 and the monitor I had it hooked up to can only support 1024x768. Works now

=P I had that happen with a laptop! Though I knew there was a problem...

At least you got it figured out though, it's not always easy knowing what your monitor supports.

 

[IBuyJunk]

Well tonight I'm going to give it another go I think. See if I can get anywhere.