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Article #21Re: X wont start - newbie
From: Bob Bain
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 10:36
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 10:36
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On Fri, 18 Apr 2003 23:57:53 GMT, ytyg@ykuisgciu.com (ray :)) wrote:
>any clues
>thanks for any and all replies
I've just set up Debian 3.0 ("Woody") on /dev/hdb7.
X wouldn't start for me either - something about "screens".
I recently installed Red Hat 8 on /dev/hdb5 and simply copied the Red
Hat configured X configuration file over to Debian on /dev/hdb7.
Miracles. It worked first time :-) :-)
I "gave up" on Linux sometime ago and am sampling distributions to
see if it's time to think about using it again.
I'm not suggesting you install Red Hat to obtain a "good"
configuration file but it appears that Red Hat does a far better job
at setting up X than Debian 3 (Woody).
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