Re: XFree86 on potato

[Taro Fukunaga <tarozax@earthlink.net>]

What are the nodes that I have to make and how do I make them? If the 
nodes aren't too hard to make, why aren't they in the debian package? 
(In other words, why is Potato broken when it is supposed to be a stable 
distro?)

Fortunately my system is still running.

-- Taro

Ethan Benson wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 07:43:35AM -0800, Taro Fukunaga wrote:
>
>
> > - I debianized (using alien) the dev rpm that made a device called
> > adbmouse. Then I edited /etc/X11/XF86Config so that the mouse device was adbmouse.
>
> DO NOT use the dev rpm, aliened or not, IT WILL RUIN YOUR SYSTEM!
> someone already made that mistake earlier and had to use boot floppies
> to recover.  its not that hard to use mknod to create the handfull of
> nodes you need.