Re: X and miscellania..

[Stephen Carpenter <sjc@delphi.com>]

On Fri, Dec 11, 1998 at 03:03:48AM +0000, Matthew Haas wrote:
> Greetings debian-sparc!
>  
>  I grabbed a "snap shot" of the very beta Debian SPARC distribution a
> while back (probably a few weeks before all this talk about actually
> FREEZING things for an official release..probably back at the beginning of
> november), and using the stock 2.0.35 kernel, I've been happily playing
> with Linux on my SS-2.
>  Knowing full well that Debian SPARC is beta, I am not expecting a fully
> stable system, although I have yet to have my SPARC die on me while
> running Linux. Reading all this recent talk about X really killing
> machines, I decided to take the risk (using my 2.0.35 kernel), and was
> able to get a server running. (I would imagine trying to run X on a 2.1
> kernel is probably the source of the problems). I eventually came to a
> brick wall as I had no colors available to me (not even monochrome in a
> sense). I realized I needed an /etc/XF86Config. Having no real way of
> figuring out how to make one (off hand), I am wondering if anyone could
> send me a copy of their /etc/XF86Config? I have a CGSIX framebuffer.
>  Thanks in advance.

Try reading the man page and using command line options.

I had a similar problem when I was working on my XTerminals (making PCs and
Suns into diskless XTerminals). Turns out there is NO XF86Config
(The X server is not based on XFree86)

-Steve

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