On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 09:30:05PM +0000, Dale Scheetz wrote: > First, when running the base-config script that executes the first time > you reboot after the base install, I can select both X11 tasks and all the > GNOME tasks, yet nothing gets installed from these packages. Don't know, this stuff is the province of the tasksel people. I just defined the X Window System tasks, I don't write the mechanism that enforces them. > 1. For the virtual xserver entry apt-get installed the w3 server, and I > had to ask for the svga server explicitly in an additional command. This would probably be worked around by tasksel doing the right thing, or anXious being invoked from base-config. Otherwise, it's an apt bug. > 2. After installing xf86setup, XF86Setup refused to run because there > was no VGA16 server. The Depends line says: xserver-vga16 | xserver. > This should be reduced to xserver-vga16. No, it shouldn't. I have to keep fighting people on this. See the xf86setup package description. However, I should add xserver-vga16 to the core task package for arches that use xf86setup. Will do. > 3. When I tried to start X after configuring, the server would refuse > to run, claiming a call to /dev/mouse held invalid arguments. > The mouse device is a link to gpmdata and probably should not be > used. This is more true as the configuration was told the mouse was > on /dev/ttyS0. What configuration? What does your XF86Config say? > 4. After fixing the link for /dev/mouse I got nothing but the twm > window manager, even though I installed both olwm and olvwm and told > the olvwm postinstall to make it the default window manager. It may be that these packages don't follow the X window manager policy. Check to see if olwm and olvwm Provide: x-window-manager and that their postinst scripts register them as alternatives for /usr/bin/x-window-manager. If they do not, please file important bugs against them. > 5. I also installed all of the GNOME tasks, but got nothing assigned to > the desktop. How do I enable GNOME once I have installed it? Don't know, not my department. -- G. Branden Robinson | When dogma enters the brain, all Debian GNU/Linux | intellectual activity ceases. branden@ecn.purdue.edu | -- Robert Anton Wilson roger.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ |
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