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Re: [LUG] suse 8.1



On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 03:26:53 -0000, andrew wrote:
> I HAVE TRIED DEBIAN. BUT IT WOULDN'T INSTALL PROPERLY. I KEPT GETTING THE
> ERROR "NO USABLE SCREEN DETECTED" WHEN I TRIED TO START X

That simply means your X server is not configured correctly. A single
package most likely that you have failed to configure properly (Debian
is a little bit more "hands on", than other disbs).

Give Knoppix a try, a debian based "idiot proof" distro. :P

>From there you can at least discover a working Xf86config-4.

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