RE: slightly odd behaviour of X for a newbie and a request for h
Slink's X is not in an extremely usable state. Unless you feel like being a
guinea pig, downgrade to hamm's version.
On 08-Nov-98 Mikael Suomela wrote:
> I did an apt-get dist-upgrade yesterday and slink is great! Except for
> the fact that it did some wierd things for my X.
> First off I couldn't get it to work at all and after uninstalling and
> re-installing + some symlinking the Xserver started to run. Now my
> problem is that I can run X as root only if I use "startx". Xdm lets me
> run it as a user...though I have to log in as root first in text mode to
> get xdm running.
> When I try to run XF86Setup, it won't start complaining about missing
> xvidtune and when I try to run xvidtune, the error message says that I
> should install xvidtune before using it. I would gladly install xvidtune
> if knew how...I thought it was in the Xserver-vga16 package which I
> installed using apt. Any ideas how I would get XF86Setup running?
> Another question I have is that how do I configure xdm to launch X at
> boot time so I wouldn't have to log in as root? I have placed a command
> for it in etc/init.d and I ran update-rc.d...
>
> Lots of thanks in advance,
> Mikael
>
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