Please help me get X Server running!!!
 

Hi,
I recently installed Debian on my Dell C510 laptop, and I have been working 6 hours trying to get X server to run so I can have some sort of GUI. It took me a while to figure out how to edit XF86config-4 or by dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 to edit it. I have a ATI Radeon Mobility Graphics driver but that wasn't working, so I switched to the vesa driver as someone had suggested in this forum. Then I was having mouse problems because in the config file, it was referencing two mouses, and it was pointing to folders where I do not think the mouses were located in. Anyway, I think I got that fixed becuase I just deleted one of the mouses. So now when I type in startx the X server loads with KDE but once it gets to periphials (ie: mouse, etc.) it closes, back to the command line, giving me this error:

Fatal Server Error
Caught Signal 4
Server Aborting

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Don't really think I can post the log file because it is on my linnux os, and im using windows right now. Don't know enough about linnux to go to a browser without a GUI and browser and post it so...

Justin Grewe

Your XFree86 log is in /var/log/. You can run "cat /var/log/XFree86.0.log > Xlog.txt" to copy the XFree86 log to Xlog.txt file in your home directory. Then you can insert a floppy to your floppy drive and mount it with "mount /media/floppy0" (assuming you have the line "dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0" in /etc/fstab -- this should have been created automatically by the Sarge installation). Then you can copy Xlog.txt to floppy with "cp ~/Xlog.txt /media/floppy0". Then you need to unmount your floppy drive ("umount /media/floppy0") and now you should have your XFree86 log file in floppy, so you can post it here from Windows.

Since it sounds like you are having hardware detectin issues, you might try running a Knoppix live CD on the system. If that works (it usually will), you can look at the settings and drivers it uses and try implementing those in Debian.