Help with compiling X 4.2.0
I am trying to compile X so that I can use my Geforce2 video card. I am running debian 2.2r2 and did a clean install yesterday. I put the source code on the drive and began compiling. The make World worked fine, but when I did make Install I recieved the following errors... ... rm -f gunzip.o gcc -c -O2 -fno-strength-reduce -ansi -pedantic -Wall -Wpointer-arith -I../../../include/fonts -I../include -I../../../programs/Xserver/include -I../../../include -I../../.. -I../../../exports/include -Dlinux -D__i386__ -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=199309L -D_POSIX_SOURCE -D_XOPEN_SOURCE -D_BSD_SOURCE -D_SVID_SOURCE -D_GNU_SOURCE -DFUNCPROTO=15 -DNARROWPROTO -DFONTDIRATTRIB -DBUILD_SPEEDO -DBUILD_TYPE1 -DBUILD_CID -DBUILD_FREETYPE -DFONT_ENCODINGS_DIRECTORY=\/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings/encodings.dir\ -DX_GZIP_FONT_COMPRESSION gunzip.c gunzip.c:9: zlib.h: No such file or directory make[4]: *** [gunzip.o] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/matt/xc/lib/font/fontfile' make[3]: *** [fontfile] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/matt/xc/lib/font' make[2]: *** [install] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/matt/xc/lib' make[1]: *** [install] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/matt/xc' make: *** [install] Error 2 How can I fix this error, or is it an error I can fix? Does anyone know what this means? Thanks _ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx
Re: Kernel 2.4.x woes
From: dman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user debian-user@lists.debian.org CC: Ross Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Kernel 2.4.x woes Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 13:44:32 -0400 On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 05:40:01PM +, Vittorio wrote: | Ross Burton [debian-user] 06/09/01 21:45 +0100: | Hi, | | After noticing (thanks!) that kernel 2.4.x uses an initrd image I | managed to make it boot my Sid systems. | | I wonder if you can help me. | | In a previous post of mine I've detailed the problems I met in | compiling kernel 2.4.9 but none told me how to compile 2.4.9 and | that damned initrd (I've read everything about on that initrd to no | avail). | | Could you please explain straightforwardly, step by step how you | compiled your kernel? Make sure you enable initrd when you are doing the xconfig. It is not something that stands out greatly and I missed it a few times. After enabling the initrd I was able to compile with no problems at all. _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
kernel 2.4.7 questions
Hello, I would like to update my kernel and I have tried before and it wouldn't work because of the initrd problem that seems to be rather common. What exactly needs to be done? I have found Howtos for redhat and others but they do not work. Is there a Debian kernel howto? I last tried upgrading the kernel just after 2.4.6 came out and ended up reinstalling everything because nothing worked. I have a P3 733mHz with an Adaptec 2940u2b scsi and a Matrox G450, the dist that I have is potato 2.2r2 if that helps any. Another problem I have is updating the packages. I do not have a web connection, so I would have to download everything on to zip from school and bring it home. How can I get apt-get to find the packages on the zip disk? Thanks in advance, Matt _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
kernel 2.4.6
I have a problem. I have been trying to get the recent version of the kernel into my box. I am a relatively new user so I have not done this before. I used a kernel-update guide and followed all the directions and everything worked fine until I rebooted. When I did it gave me the following message: ... VFS: Cannot open root device 800 or 08:00 Please append a correct root= boot option Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:00 I have not changed much in lilo.conf except the name of the new kernel, but the system can no longer find something or I have done something wrong. _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
Matrox G450 and X
Hi, I tried to install Debian on my P3 box. Everything went well, anXious detected the video card, but when I started X it was in 16 colors. I used xf86config to change the default server to the SVGA rather than the VGA16, and now the screen gets all screwed up and then it freezes and I cannot do anything except reboot. Is there any way I can config so that X will work with my video card? Or do I need to go pull my Mach64 out of my other box? Thanks _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
