Cheers Ben That did the trick............
Thanks for the help Chris -----Original Message----- From: Ben Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16 February 2002 22:04 To: Wren, Christopher Cc: '[email protected]' Subject: Re: Newbie: Ultra10 & Creator3d On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 09:56:34PM -0000, Wren, Christopher wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I'm new to debian and not sure how to get X working, spent the last couple > of days playing about with potato and woody but not realy had much joy..... > reading through the archives there seems to be lots of suggestions but I'm > still not clear on the steps I need to take. > > I've currently got a clean version of potato running with kernel 2.2.20 > <---- working great thanks *grin* > > I could do with some advice on which x packages to install use and how to > get it to use the Creator3D and not the onboard card, which it does seem to > want to use as default. > > I did see a post that recommended adding the link > > ln -s /dev/fb0 /dev/fb <------ fb0 being the Creator card, is this > correct ?? For potato, you'll need to install xserver-xsun24. Then you can simply type "startx". On woody, you'll need to install xserver-xfree86, and configure for sunffb. Again, after it is done, you'll use "startx" to start the server. -- .----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=-----. / Ben Collins -- Debian GNU/Linux -- WatchGuard.com \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
