On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 01:27:11PM -0300, Vitor Silva Souza wrote:
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| I installed potato using the CDs. I used dselect to select packages to
| install and I left it unchanged, that means I did not install any X
| packages. Afther that, I changed the apt source to testing and ran "apt-get
| dist-upgrade". Then I installed wmaker and all the dependencies (and some
| suggestions/recommendations) using dselect. I configured xserver-svga, thus
| creating /etc/X11/XF86Config.
Which version of X are you using? Version 4 has only 1 server
(xserver-xfree86) whereas version 3 had many (xserver-svga being one
of them).
| When I tried to run startx, it didn't existed. Neither did xinit or any
| documentation about it ('locate xinit' didn't return anything). Then I
| tried installing some other packages such as xserver-xfree86, but that
| didn't install xinit or created startx.
Those are in xbase-clients.
| Also I noticed that xf86config didn't existed,
because ver. 4 doesn't need one. Just run 'XFree86 -configure'
| but a xf86config-v3 did.
because ver. 3 had it and needs it. Also the format of the config
file has changed.
| Is everything just broken or did I do something wrong in the
| process? What package do I need to install to have xinit, startx and
| xf86config in my system?
BTW, if you enable the framebuffer in the kernel, you can have X use
the 'fb' driver and there is very little config necessary. I use it
this way. It's not accelerated (for my hardware) but it runs very
nicely.
HTH,
-D
