Rajesh Fowkar proclaimed:
> If I try to run X on potato I am getting the following error :
>
> Symbol VBE_Init from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/i810_drv.o
> Symbol VBEDOEDID from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/i810_drv.o
>
> The module i810_drv.0 is present in that directory and I have got the
> following line in my device section
>
> driver 'i810'
>
> which works fine on SuSE 7.
>
> After doing normal installation ( simple - I have not selected advanced ),
> icewm, mutt etc. are not installed.
Where did you get X 4.x for potato? I thought it was no longer part of
potato.
> Right now I am confused between dpkg, apt-get. What is the difference
> between the two. If I install a .deb package using dpkg what I should do so
> that apt-get also recognises that package is installed. What is better to
> use apt-get or dpkg ?
Actually, there are three choices: dpkg, dselect and apt-get. dpkg is the
equivalent of rpm. dselect is a nice text menu driven thing. And apt-get
is a very sophisticated package management tool.
Dselect is just a front end to dpkg. They both use the same backend
database - i.e. /var/lib/dpkg/available
apt-get uses its own database under /var/cache/apt/
When you choose apt as a method in dselect, you are syncing both the
backend databases.
I typically use dpkg to install already downloaded individual .debs. I use
apt-get to download and install new software packages. I use dselect when
I want to search through my list of installed and available packages.
> No xf86config binary is installed after normal potato installation. How X
> should be configured on Debian ?
Install and run dexter.
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