More questions about APT and distribuitions... [Was: Re: Xwindows in Sparc Station 5?]

2000-02-11 Thread Luis Campos de Carvalho
On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Aaron Solochek wrote: Potato is newer. You want to get potato. edit your /etc/apt/sources.list so that it contains only the lines deb http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US potato non-US/main

Re: More questions about APT and distribuitions... [Was: Re: Xwindows in Sparc Station 5?]

2000-02-11 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 02:12:33PM -0200, Luis Campos de Carvalho wrote: On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Aaron Solochek wrote: Potato is newer. You want to get potato. edit your /etc/apt/sources.list so that it contains only the lines deb http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib

Re: More questions about APT and distribuitions... [Was: Re: Xwindows in Sparc Station 5?]

2000-02-11 Thread Luis Campos de Carvalho
On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Ben Collins wrote: On Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 02:12:33PM -0200, Luis Campos de Carvalho wrote: On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Aaron Solochek wrote: Potato is newer. You want to get potato. edit your /etc/apt/sources.list so that it contains only the lines deb

Xwindows in Sparc Station 5?

2000-02-10 Thread Luis Campos de Carvalho
Hy, list people. I'm trying to configure the X windows system in a SparcStation machine (Debian), but i can't figure out what is going on. I simply can't start the Xwindows, and i don't know nothing about debbugging the configuration. Can you help me? Any

Re: Xwindows in Sparc Station 5?

2000-02-10 Thread Aaron Solochek
Can you start it as root? Are you running slink or potato? What xserver are you using? Luis Campos de Carvalho wrote: Hy, list people. I'm trying to configure the X windows system in a SparcStation machine (Debian), but i can't figure out what is going on. I simply can't

Re: Xwindows in Sparc Station 5?

2000-02-10 Thread Luis Campos de Carvalho
On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Aaron Solochek wrote: Can you start it as root? Are you running slink or potato? What xserver are you using? Hy. I can't start it, even as root. I don't know where is the equivalent to 'XFConfig' (Debian/PC), or even if its exists. (How can i

Re: Xwindows in Sparc Station 5?

2000-02-10 Thread Aaron Solochek
I had these same problems... Actually, I don't think I ever got X working under slink, it worked right away under potato, however. /etc/X11/Xserver will tell you what server it is trying to use. There is no configuration, I've been told. The way I understand it is that Sun framebuffers simply

Re: Xwindows in Sparc Station 5?

2000-02-10 Thread Luis Campos de Carvalho
On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Aaron Solochek wrote: I had these same problems... Actually, I don't think I ever got X working under slink, it worked right away under potato, however. /etc/X11/Xserver will tell you what server it is trying to use. Sorry, i don't understand. This is