On Tue, May 12, 1998 at 12:45:40PM +0200, Brederlow wrote: > I compiled and installed the XFree 3.3.2-4 and found some stones in my > path: > > 1. The Xresource was changed, so that Xterms have a black background. > Why didn't I get asked befor replacing the file? I get asked for > all other config files, just XFree doesn't ask. I'm not sure why you weren't prompted for the overwrite -- /etc/X11/Xresources is marked as a conffile. There is probably something I don't understand about dpkg. On the other hand, due to (un-)popular demand, I have backed out the change of xterm's colors in 3.3.2.1-1, which is now in Incoming. > 2. XFree needs misc/joystik to compile and thus should recommend, > suggest, depend on misc/joystik, because without it the joystik > wont work. In XFree86 3.3.2.1-1, xext suggests the joystick package. Once kernel 2.2 is out, this won't be necessary as a joystick driver will (probably) be shipping with the kernel sources. > 3. XFree does a make -k, so it compiled for 18 hours instead of > stopping with an error after several minutes. It makes it hard to > find errors. This is something about make I didn't know. I'll look into this. Thanks very much for pointing this out, it may save me many hours. > 4. XFree Server XXX should sugget/recommend the XF86Setup (its in > XF86vga I think) programm. XF86Setup is in xserver-vga16, because XF86Setup specifically wants the VGA16 X server. In slink, there will be an xserver-common package, and XF86Setup will be there. > 5. A XF86Config for m68k (Framebuffer Device) isn't provided any > longer. Its been in previous bin packages (might not have been in > the source, but from the person building it). Please contact James Troup <troup@debian.org> about this, especially if you can provide him with such a sample XF86Config for m68k. I'd love to include one. > May the Source be with you. Thanks for your help. -- G. Branden Robinson | "I came, I saw, she conquered." The Purdue University | original Latin seems to have been branden@purdue.edu | garbled. http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | -- Robert Heinlein
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