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Hi there, I'm new to unix-environments.
I'm richard, and i'm mostly a web-developer, under php. I've done work in unix env before, but never had my own.
Today, I've got debian 3.1 r4 from the official site, and i've attempted to install it twice.

I installed it initially as "Desktop Environment" and "Database server", but it wasn't working (no x). After that, i formated the old partition, reinstalled it just as desktop environment. I tried starting X (startx), but it gave a bunch of errors, weird characters, and after that, my prompt changed, and i was typing weird characters (menu constructor lines, dots, squares, etc).

rebooted, tried xf86cfg and xf86config, and after that, it just popped me "No screen found" (or display, hmm).
I really don't know what's wrong, or what do I have to do anymore. Can i find somewhere a default X configuration?

I have a Flatron L1919s, which has a native resolution of 1280x1024, a ATI X1600 video card with 256 mb ram (i tried screwing around with this values in xf86config, but it didn't work, either) and a standard keyboard and mouse (3 buttons, wheel, optical, connects to ps/2).

How can I make a small config file, and most important, how can I transfer it to debian? No internet (PPPoE, can't configure) no printer, no floppy drive. I was thinking of a RW disc, but how do i use that?

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

fcgiwrap

FCGIWRAP(8)						      System Manager's Manual						       FCGIWRAP(8)

NAME

       fcgiwrap - serve CGI applications over FastCGI

SYNOPSIS

       fcgiwrap [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION

       fcgiwrap  is  a	simple	server	for  running  CGI applications over FastCGI. It hopes to provide clean CGI support to Nginx (and other web
       servers that may need it).

OPTIONS

       -c number
	      Number of fcgiwrap processes to prefork.

       -s socket_url
	      A URL for the listen socket to bind to. By default fcgiwrap expects a listen socket to be passed on file descriptor 0, matching  the
	      FastCGI  convention.   The  recommended  way  to deploy fcgiwrap is to run it under a process manager that takes care of opening the
	      socket.  However,  for  simple  configurations  and  one-off  tests  this  option   may	be   used.   Valid   socket_urls   include
	      unix:/path/to/unix/socket, tcp:dot.ted.qu.ad:port and tcp6:[ipv6_addr]:port.

       -h     Show a help message and exit.

ENVIRONMENT

       When  running, fcgiwrap evaluates these environment variables set by the web server calling an fcgi-script. The variables DOCUMENT_ROOT and
       SCRIPT_NAME will be concatenated and the resulting executable run as CGI script wrapped as FastCGI, with the  remainder	after  the  script
       name  available	as PATH_INFO. To disable PATH_INFO mangling, set up your web server to pass SCRIPT_FILENAME, which should contain the com-
       plete path to the script. Then PATH_INFO will not be modified.

       DOCUMENT_ROOT
	      directory which the script resides in
       SCRIPT_NAME
	      actual executable
       SCRIPT_FILENAME
	      complete path to CGI script. When set, overrides DOCUMENT_ROOT and SCRIPT_NAME

EXAMPLE

       The fastest way to see fcgiwrap do something is to launch it at the command line like this:
       fcgiwrap -s unix:/var/run/fcgiwrap.sock
       Apart from potential permission problems etc., it should be ready to accept FastCGI requests and run CGI scripts.

       Most probably you will want to launch fcgiwrap by spawn-fcgi using a configuration like this:

       FCGI_SOCKET=/var/run/fcgiwrap.sock
       FCGI_PROGRAM=/usr/sbin/fcgiwrap
       FCGI_USER=nginx
       FCGI_GROUP=www
       FCGI_EXTRA_OPTIONS="-M 0700"
       ALLOWED_ENV="PATH"

       Nginx can be configured to have the arbitrary CGI cgit run as FastCGI as follows:

       location / {
	    fastcgi_param DOCUMENT_ROOT /var/www/localhost/htdocs/cgit/;
	    fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME	cgit;
	    fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/fastcgi.sock;
       }

AUTHOR

       fcgiwrap was written by Grzegorz Nosek <root@localdomain.pl> with contributions by W-Mark Kubacki <wmark@hurrikane.de>.

       This manual page was written by Jordi Mallach <jordi@debian.org> (with contributions by Grzegorz Nosek) for the Debian project (and may	be
       used by others).

								    Jun 3, 2010 						       FCGIWRAP(8)