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oh wow thanks so much for posting! i was ready to reinstall everything and i tried upgrading to sid and now it works! what a relief, seriously

i just purged lxde and openbox and its still not working. i think i might as well just do a fresh new install. i don't know what happened but i sure hope this doesn't happen again. i appreciate the effort put into helping me. i wont be reinstalling until the weekend. if anyone has any ideas of what ...

Nobody knows how to do this?

Well see this is whats weird to me: why am I using a graphical interface right now but startx doesn't work? This is all so confusing to me because everything is inconsistent, just like me being able to manually start lxde but not automatically. Considering that LXDE isn't anywhere near as popular as...

Well now I can't even log into openbox anymore. I purged slim and reinstalled it to reverse the issues (I'm not sure how many lingering files there are so I found purging the easiest method). I tried booting up without slim and just tried startx and this is what I got: FATAL: Module fbcon not found ...

hmm interesting, you are very informative and I really appreciate your post. Currently my slim.conf says: login_cmd exec /bin/bash -login /etc/X11/Xsession %session I'm a tiny bit confused as to what you said should be put in there and I'd rather not take a risk and screw it up even more, so should ...

I use Debian testing, i686 and yesterday I ran an update. There were only a few packages updating and about 3 to remove. I always check what updates and removes, and obviously if something is updating I figure its a good thing so I didn't pay much attention to that if I didn't know what exactly the ...

I just had a quick question - how do I get it so when I close the lid of my laptop, it just powers off the backlight instead of putting it in standby?

i have version 0.5.2

i'm using the testing version of debian 5, shouldn't i already have that? also, exactly which samba packages do i need? theres like 20 of them and i don't know whats needed and whats extra