Re: [Q] .debs for X servers?
On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Jonathan Belson wrote:
> >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.
If I'm correct you have a PReP box. So you either have to try the (very old)
Xserver for PPC and Cirrus Logic boards (Xbh, IIRC), or use clgenfb. For the
latter (clgenfb on PPC), I think you're better off with a 2.3.x kernel instead
of 2.2.x.
Good luck!
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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