On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 10:14:06PM -0800, Deepak Nulu wrote: > Then I was looking at the "X Strike Force" web page and thought I > would change the terminal type in /etc/X11/Xresources as specified in > that web page. I tried to edit that file and found out that it is a > directory on my system. [...] > Is there something wrong here? Should Xresources be a file or should > it be a directory or can it be either? For hamm systems, it should be a file. For slink/potato systems, it should be a directory. This is a change I made during the Great Reorganization of the Debian X packages, so that packages with X clients can ship conffiles that contain X resources (app-defaults files are not to be modified after installation). > I have a matrox productiva g100 graphics card and this was not > supported in the xfree86 that came with debian 2.0 so I installed the > version provided by SUSE which had the latest and which was to be > available in the next release of xfree86. I am not sure if that messed > things up. If you installed only the X server, you're not in any deep trouble. If you installed the whole new XFree86 system, things will probably be in a terrible state. This happens when you do an end run around the packaging system. > If this is a problem, how do I clean it up? Please let me know if I > need to provide more info about my system. Please specify what since I > am a newbie. I suggest removing or purging any XFree86 packages you have installed, and doing fresh installs of the latest Debian XFree86 packages. -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | Please do not look directly into laser branden@ecn.purdue.edu | with remaining eye. cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ |
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