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 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- The Moon is Waning Crescent (3% of Full) My web site: http://hallenbeck.ftml.net and my cell phone: 1-518-334-9022. -------- It is impossible for an optimist to be pleasantly surprised.
