roadgeek9 Posted March 22, 2008 Share Posted March 22, 2008 I am trying to set up a virtual machine running Debian Etch (4.0). Being the idiot I am, I told it not to install the graphics environment during setup. Here are the specs of the VM: Emulated Pentium M 1.73 GHz, 512 MB Memory, 16 GB Hard Disk, 8 MB S3 Graphics, running under Virtual PC 2007 (under Windows XP). I logged in as root and typed in "apt-get install x11-common" and "apt-get install gnome" and "apt-get install xserver-xorg." Then I rebooted. When I rebooted, I got this error message: "Failed to start the X server (your graphical interface). It is likely that it is not setup correctly. Would you like to view the X server output and diagnose the problem?" After I got that error, I typed in "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" and reconfigured X, then I rebooted, same problem occurred. I also tried the command "startx" and nothing happened. What am I doing wrong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadgeek9 Posted March 22, 2008 Author Share Posted March 22, 2008 Any help? :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted March 22, 2008 Veteran Share Posted March 22, 2008 It's been less than an hour... relax. :p So, you are installed in a virtual machine? How did you set up your X? I am going to guess that the problem is from interfacing into your virtual environment. Also, I have heard bad things about MSVPC running Linux. The conspiracy theorists say it is a Microsoft plot. Those without tinfoil will still usually say that VMWare works better and has less problems. Either way, the virtual software you are using may be making things more difficult. If I had VPC experience, I would help more, but this should be a start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadgeek9 Posted March 22, 2008 Author Share Posted March 22, 2008 apt-get install x11-common xserver-xorg gnome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted March 22, 2008 Veteran Share Posted March 22, 2008 How did you set it up? As in which video driver and other options did you select? :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadgeek9 Posted March 22, 2008 Author Share Posted March 22, 2008 How did you set it up? As in which video driver and other options did you select? :p Keyboard: pc104, us Display: VESA Driver (also tried emulated S3 driver, which failed) at max. res of 1024x768x16.7M Mouse: PS/2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted March 22, 2008 Veteran Share Posted March 22, 2008 Looks like you might have chosen too high of a color depth for MSVPC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Vir...ed_environments Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borbus Posted March 22, 2008 Share Posted March 22, 2008 I've never got X to work in MSVPC. Use VMWare. Or just install it properly tbh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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