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Re: [Q] .debs for X servers?



On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 09:27:10PM +0000, Jonathan Belson wrote:
> Hiya
> 
> 
> >No, it's somewhere else in your configuration.  You have fbdev support;
> >PowerPC has no other non-serial console method any more.  Check if it's
> >trying to open the wrong device or something.
> 
> The message from X is 'could not open /dev/fb0', which definitely exists.
> 
> I guess I'll have to try compiling XFree86 from source next.

hmm, try running X as root.  It could be a permissions thing.

Dan

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