quoth Marcus Brinkmann: > > i'm working on getting this up atm but run into the problem that x can't > > "find the keyboard" - does this have anything to do with the fact that > > console-tools doesn't seem to have been ported to hurd yet? > > console-tools is not software applicable to the Hurd: It is a linux specific > software.
perhaps; the debs still reference console-utilities, and there is no hurd package providing console-utilities. > Do you talk about installing the X packages, or running the X server? > Note that the thread you replied to is about building the X sources. sorry; i was only looking at the current packages. > I suspect you don't have /dev/kbd. If you just have problems running the > X server, you should look into the mail archive or t the web pages > describing how to get X running on the Hurd. will do. any specific pointers to webpages (there are none referenced from the gnu/debian/ogi/sourceforge sites)? thank you for the general direction anyway. -- dog zxr | mg "it is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into" - swift

