Re: X11 Works

[steiges@gmx.de]

On Sun, 7 Nov 1999, Edward S. Baiz Jr. wrote:

> I finally got the thing to work and boy it's great. I just did what 
> Christian said and went with the Potato setup. I installed the Potato 
Oh you make me so happy, finally somebody is doing what I say!
But now I will never find out, if the patch I mailed last night will work on
slink systems...
> version of Xfree86, Xserver-common and Xserver-fbdeb (I think that's 
> the name). I had to change one line in the XF86Config. I have an Atari 
Is that so?
> Hades 060 and the Config file made reference to /dev/mouse of which 
> there was no such file device. I had to change it to /dev/atarimouse 
Are you really really sure? Didn't the installscript ask you about your
mouse? Told you "Oh, you have allready a /dev/mouse shall I remove it and
create it anew?" You should have done that (its still untested on ataris,
thats why I want you to test that). Please run xserver-configure again and
answer "yes, yes" to reinstall XF86Config and to let the setup program
create the dev/mouse link. Its better when you use /dev/mouse for all things
than dev/atarimouse, imagine, you set up gpm and its looking for /dev/mouse,
it would work out of the box then.
Please try it and tell me if it works.
> and the X11 loaded right in with the mouse working fine. Of course I 
> will need to get the Joystick working. That may be a problem since my 
> joystick port is a standard Atari joystick port and I may have to find 
> a suitable driver. 
We never cared for the joystick, I dont even know if it would work. I bet
you have to compile a kernel with joystick support, I never tried that. 
What would you need the joystick for when you have a mouse?
> Now should I d/l other Potato files too like the xdm display 
> manager and install them? I would think so..
If you want to help us testing the packages, yes please. If you just want to
use it, no you dont have to. xdm is ok, it builds from the same source as
x11 (same version number I hope). But potato contains way more packages than
slink, so download it! Test it :-)

Ciao,
Christian.
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