reconfiguring xserver-xorg (xorg.conf)

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

Michael,

Thanks for your ideas, but to return to my original problem, it is the
xserver-xorg base that does not run for me. It has nothing to do with a
desktop. Every desktop will require a running X to be present first,
and that is what I cannot make happen here. Others have commented on
this, and it seems that xorg insists on a physical monitor connected to
the system in order to be configured. I have no monitor. Well, okay, I
do, but it is not convenient to connect it to this boxat the moment. 

I have too much to lose here by following leads that do not seem
relevant to my primary issue. At the moment I'm pursuing Samuel's
suggestion about xvfb and the xvfb-run script, which appear more
promising. 

Once X is running, I'll worry about configuring a desktop.

Chuck


On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 04:24:15PM -0700, Gaijin wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 06:41:55PM -0400, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
> > Here's what that gives:
> > Package `desktop' is not installed and no info is available.
> 
> 	Alright.  After a 'dpkg -l | grep "desktop"', I get a new
> package mentioned...desktop-base.  You can try:
> 
> # dpkg-reconfigure desktop-base
> 
> ...and see if you get the real configuration screen to come back up.
> debconf controls so much in debian, it's hard to  tweak most things
> without breaking something, or having your configs over-written these
> days..  I'm thinking of going to LFS and stripping everything back down
> to bedrock linux.
> 
> 			Michael
> 
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