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Re: X windows...



David Warnock wrote:
> 
> Noel Yap wrote:
> >
> > David Warnock wrote:
> > > I suggest you look in the man pages for startx. You should see that the
> > > default X server to start is X. On my system that was starting the wrong
> > > server so I changed X to be a symbolic link to XF86_SVGA.
> >                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > On a Debian system, /usr/bin/X11/X is not a symlink at all but actually
> > a wrapper program that checks the file /etc/X11/Xserver for the proper X
> > server to call.  You'll want the first line in that file to read
> > "/usr/bin/X11/XF86_SVGA".  See /usr/doc/xbase/README.Debian for more
> > information.
> 
> Noel
> 
> Thanks, looks like I goofed. I was sure I had not done this the right
> way but had a lot of dificulty finding what was happening. There seem to
> be so many files used in the startup of X.
> 
> I guess that if I get dselect to re-install the base X package I can get
> the correct X file back?


	Yes, xbase holds both Xserver and XF86Config; you'll need to give
explicit permission at install time to overwrite the old file with the
new one.


> That README.Debian is bery useful - I wish I had found it sooner.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Dave

-- 
Ed C.


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