Timmay313 Posted February 9, 2008 Share Posted February 9, 2008 I have Ubuntu 7. 10 installed on my gateway M285-E notebook. it was simple and everything works great. ubuntu however is too simple for me, i want to configure my system how i want it. i have downloaded and attempted installs of Gentoo, Slackware, Suse10. 3, fedora, Free BSD, Backtrack2 and 3beta, and a few other flavors. Suse and Fedora installed with few problems. the others it seemed did not like my grafix card (ATI Radeon Mobility x1400). I really would like to playaround with some of these other Linux flavors though. If anyone can help me out, point me to some step by step tutorials on configuring these systems it would be helpfull to say the least. I am someone of a novist with Linux yet but i am learning quickly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomeoneE1se Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 try debian almost all of the benefits of ubuntu but its linux without training wheels Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timmay313 Posted February 10, 2008 Author Share Posted February 10, 2008 yeah i did. i ended up with a Ubuntu system with out the name lol. really all i need help with is configuring the xserver and such Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomeoneE1se Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 xserver in my experience, can be a bitch (getting a tablet to work) the correct config in on the internet somewhere and google should know where it is the trick is getting google to give up the secret what doesn't work? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timmay313 Posted February 11, 2008 Author Share Posted February 11, 2008 i boot up, login as root and enter the startx command I get: /usr/X11R6/bin/Xauth: creathing new authority file /root/Xauthority xauth: (stdin) :1: bad display name ":0" in add command and it repeats itself like five times then tells me server names are Xorg and something else i cant remember right now. I know i have to configure the x server but i dont really now how and google is not being friendly on this either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomeoneE1se Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 sounds like its crashing on startup but I can't tell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 What does /var/log/Xorg.0.log say? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timmay313 Posted February 12, 2008 Author Share Posted February 12, 2008 directory does not exsist.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomeoneE1se Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 whats the output of ls -la /etx/X11/ and ls -la /var/log/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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