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XtremeGamer99
January 17th, 2008, 01:38 PM
I've been trying for a few days to get Debian to boot into something usable. My first problem was getting it to install on an Intel RAID controller. I got through that, then my next big problem was trying to get the GUI environment to work (in this case, KDE). I didn't have the X server configured properly to my video card and display, so I used Knoppix's mkxorgconfig utility to create a xorg.config file that I then transfered to my Debian. That made it work.

I have two questions though:
mkxorgconfig it a very handy tool. I'm wanting to include it in my Debian setup, just in case I change video cards or something. It's not really on my priority list, but how can I get it to work on Debian (at the moment, it's a Knoppix-only utility).

I also want to install KDE 4.0. How would I go about doing this? I'm running a Debian testing distro with the default repositories. I tried using Synaptic Package Manager, but I don't see the new KDE (the one installed is 3.5).

I can give more info once I get home to the machine, if need be. Thanks!

angryfirelord
January 20th, 2008, 10:12 AM
mkxorgconfig it a very handy tool. I'm wanting to include it in my Debian setup, just in case I change video cards or something. It's not really on my priority list, but how can I get it to work on Debian (at the moment, it's a Knoppix-only utility).

You can try to find a deb package if available, but for generating xorg.conf files, I just use dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg in a terminal. Works very well.
I also want to install KDE 4.0. How would I go about doing this? I'm running a Debian testing distro with the default repositories. I tried using Synaptic Package Manager, but I don't see the new KDE (the one installed is 3.5).
That's because it's in the experimental branch at this point and is probably broken. You can try it at your own risk!
http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/experimental.html

kinematic
January 20th, 2008, 11:33 AM
At this moment KDE 4 is uninstallable from experimental. How do I know....I tried :)