cool, well I am following Charles's instructions on getting rpmdrake working again, if that works, I can use it to find out what the deps are for XFree86-3.3.x are, and install the lot from scratch..
I generally don't like doing the upgrade off the CD, it seems risky and takes ages.. (and I can't boot from the CD on this system which means I have to do the whole CDROM.img on a floppy, then make the mem-119 and stuff to get the shared memory for the video card, and thats all alot of trouble just to install a few RPM's, so if rpmdrake can tell me, thats the go... :-) Thanks for the tip though, its now my "last resort" and at least I now have one :-) rgds Frank -----Original Message----- From: Rusty Carruth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 2 January 2002 1:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Rusty Carruth; Linux Mandrake Expert Mailing List Subject: Re: [expert] framebuffer. > > I could be wrong, > it has happened before :-) , but I think that X needs to be told to use > framebuffer as its "driver" > > Civilme said something about using X3.x to get framebuffer, but I didn't > really catch the drift of his comment. > > Actually, I just looked on the 8.1 install CD and notice this > :XFree86-FBDev-3.3.6-23mdk.i586.rpm > but I can't find the actual X server, I found server-common, but not the > server and not the client either, I can't imagine them being on another CD, > can't use rpmdrake, because I don't have a working rpmdrake (no GUI > remember) > > any ideas what packages I have to install to get 3.3.6-23 to work? No, what I (think I) did was just go do an upgrade, and select 3.3.6 version and all went well. (is this clear? what I mean is, once it was all installed, I either did a full install or I booted on the install CD and said 'upgrade' (using expert mode - I've not used the other mode in so long I have no idea what the differences are!). Then, if I remember right, it just worked i.e. I answered the minimum questions I could get away with to get to the X install part, and it finally got there - and asked me what version of X I wanted (and it was rather quick, since no packages needed upgrading ;-). I chose 3.3.6 and made sure that it was right using the check mode, then I was done...) Hope this helps and is less than confusing! (I'm busy installing the subfloor for ceramic tile right now, so my reply times will be rather long!) rc
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