xserver problems

[coopstah13]

Well last night i decided that i was going to get rid of windows altogether and just install debian. Thing was I was already dual booting, but i wanted to change my partitions and stuff so i figured i'd just do a fresh install since debian only takes like 15 minutes to do so. Everything goes smooth, I upgrade my distribution to Sid no problems just as I want to. But I cannot get X to work for some reason. I try to dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg but it errors out partway through, I think right before the monitor stuff. So i manually make an xorg.conf file to try to just get something working, but it says no display found, unfortunately I am at work and cannot post the output of anything, but I am baffled as it was working before I reinstalled. Also when I type exec startx it says startx not found, which I find very strange. I am using nvidia card and I need to install the drivers, but I can't even start x with just like vesa to download them. Any ideas?

[devils casper]

Also when I type exec startx it says startx not found, which I find very strange.

Did you install xorg?
Execute this

su 
apt-get install xorg

Does it install any package?

[coopstah13]

i did not install the package "xorg" but I installed xserver-xorg which is what I have installed the last 3 times I installed a working debian system with X, I am writing from a system right now that I didn't install package "xorg" on, but I guess I can try that at home see if somehow it fixes it.

[devils casper]

startx command is not available and it means X Server ( xorg ) isn't installed completely. Try installing xorg.

[coopstah13]

i don't have xorg package installed on the machine i am typing this from and exec startx works, so that isn't the problem

[coopstah13]

I figured it out.
btw I'm pretty sure xorg is a virtual package used to install xserver, but its not required.
I was missing package xinit.
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg still fails for some reason, but oh well

[devils casper]

xorg is not a virtual package. Its just a meta package having a list of all packages required to run X Server properly.