Re: How did you get X running in Debian PowerPC?
Thanks, I did that in MkLinux a long time ago so I'm sure I can
do it again...
Isn't that going to scare off a lot of people from going to Debian though?
I'm trying to convince a friend who wants to switch from MkLinux to
LinuxPPC, to give Debian a try, but he's not going to be very happy about
this...
> On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, Renaud Dreyer wrote:
> > In general, how did the people with running Debian ppc boxes manage
> > to get X up and running? I still can't get Xpmac to work, and if I
> > switch to XF68_FBDev, there's no tool to generate a valid XF86Config file
> > I could find. Since Debian PowerPC is about to get released very soon,
> > I'm sure there must a solution somewhere that is planned. Thanks,
>
> We copy-and-edit /usr/doc/xserver-common/examples/XF86Config.eg by hand, afetr
> reading the manpage for XF86Config.
>
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
> --
> Geert Uytterhoeven -- Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} -- geert@linux-m68k.org
>
> In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
> when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
> -- Linus Torvalds
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