Re: Xf86 and fbdev, unresolved symbol

[Sarah <sjf@utvinternet.ie>]

Matthew P. Cummings <cummings@stingray.net> quoth:
> On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 19:07, Sarah wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> > I'm trying to get X working on my A4000 (btw the woody install went fine,
> > turns out it was prob with CD drive).
> > I'm using fbdev. However X fails with the error:
>
> The only solution I have found to running X on the Amiga is one that was
> posted in the past.  If you extract the server from
> xserver-fbdev_3.3.6-11potato32.deb and place it in /usr/X11R6/bin and
> then link /etc/X to it and use the example configuration from the docs
> for that server it works.
>
> I extracted it like this;
>
> dpkg -x xserver-fbdev_3.3.6-11potato32.deb /home/whatever
>
> which gives you a usr directory under the home directory and then you
> can go in there and get what you need.
>

Excellent, that version of X works grand, thanks for the help guys.  Now all I have to do is find a network card. :)

Sarah