This one time, at band camp, Ken Januski said: > Thanks for the advice Steve, > > I've tried some of it. I removed gpm. I then took at look at what packages I > had and saw I had one for xserver-common version 3 as well as 4. I told > dselect to remove version 3. It told me it would remove: > task-x-windows-system-core > xf86setup > xserver-common-v3 > xserver-sv3 > xserver-svga > xserver-vga16 > > I trusted it on this and said ok. That seemed to work except for a note > telling me that I'd need to run dkpg-reconfigure xserver-s3v before I > restarted x. > > I also linked /dev/mouse to /dev/ttys0, which is owned by root. > > I then tried X -configure. That told me that /etc/X11/X was not executable. > startx told me the same thing. When I checked I then saw that /etx/X11/X is > a link to the svga server that I just got rid of! > > So now I'm stuck in a new place and am not really sure if I've progressed or > not. Perhaps you can tell better than I. Unfortunately I now have to leave > for an 8 hour work shift. But if you have any more ideas as to what to try > next please let me know. I'd really like to get this straighened out. > > Thanks, > > Ken apt-get install xserver-xfree86 should fix that problem. X changed quite a bit between v3 and v4. It used to have all of these seperate server packaging depending on which video card you have, but now the one server is modularized, and loads the module for your video card as needed. Hopefully, this should fix your problems. If not, write back. I went through a lot of this in a potato -> woody upgrade about a year ago, and managed to fix it with some suggestions from this list. Don't despair yet. I had thought some of the rockiness had been worked out, but apparently not. HTH, Steve -- Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress. -- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982
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