Re: configuring xf4, was Re: Can't configure 3rd button on mouse

[Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>]

On 18 Apr 2001, Rob Browning wrote:

> Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net> writes:
> 
> > >   apt-get update dpkg debconf apt
> > ------------^^^^^^
> > I think you mean upgrade here, but my understanding is that upgrade isn't
> > supposed to take package names...
> 
>   apt-get update foo bar
> 
> just updates those individual packages (and whatever else they need)

Note on my machine!

>From the apt-get manpage:

    update    update  is  used  to  resynchronize   the   package
              overview files from their sources. The overviews of
              available packages are fetched from the location(s)
              specified  in  /etc/apt/sources.list.  For example,
              when using a Debian archive, this command retrieves
              and  scans  the Packages.gz files, so that informa-
              tion about new and updated packages  is  available.
              An  update  should  always  be  performed before an
              upgrade dist-upgrade.  Please  be  aware  that  the
              overall  progress  meter  will  be incorrect as the
              size of  the  package  files  cannot  be  known  in
              advance.



> to the latest versions.  I've never used upgrade, so I don't know what
> that does.

See 'man apt-get' ;-)

> 
> > Understood. The config file is the same as the previous working one. I put
> > the /etc/X11/X symlink back to the svga server, and here is what I get:
> > 
> > dwarf:~# startx
> 
> What happens if you just invoke XF86_SVGA directly (or whatever the
> binary's named)?
> 

Didn't realize I could do that!

Well, I get a grey screen with a large X as the mouse cursor. I can move
the mouse cursor on the screen, but that's all I get. No mouse clicks
cause anything new.

It seems that the normal startup can't find the X symlink, but I can't see
why not.

Must be time to do a dist-upgrade. Is that pretty safe for woody right
now? ;-)

Luck,

Dwarf
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