Re: Configuring a monitor (and video card)?
I'm not an expert, and I haven't tried it (-yet) but I gather it is possible
to tell dselect that you want to get some stuff from potato. Dselect IMHO is
really good at handling depencies...
Maybe some of the wiz'es know what the latest Xserver-svga depends on?!
Regards
:-)
Vitux
Error is human; complete disaster takes a computer
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> Sendt: 19. august 1999 18:52
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> Emne: Re: SV: Configuring a monitor (and video card)?
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> On Thu, 19 Aug 1999 vw@geus.DK wrote:
>
> > You have to resolve the dependency problem first. IIRC, the driver you
> need
> > is exactly xserver-svga 3.3.3.1-10 ,the file that was causing you
> trouble
>
> while doing dpkg -i there is no advice available to see, what kind of
> packages are needed to solve dependency problems... It is just telling you
> that this won't do...
>
> Anyway, I tried to install xserver-svga 3.3.3.1-10 (once again). To see,
> if it is possible to find out what to do for it.
>
> This time I had again a sudden power-shut-down. While the machine just
> announced 'unpacking...' (so there is something else besides that
> 'Windows-button'.)
>
> Now the complete system is again broken, no kernel or X starting. No
> dependency problems either.
>
> Going home. Got enough for today.
>
> -hv
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