Re: Getting X working

[Tom Cato Amundsen <tomcato@iname.com>]

Rick Knebel wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to install slink on my computer, which i successfully did.
> This is my first debian install.
>
> I have two questions.
>
> My Matrox 400 card is not supported with the version of Xfree that comes
> with Slink.
>
> I tried installing my Accelerated X but i keep getting the error mesage
> cannot load libterm.cap.so.2.
>
> What library do i have to install.

libterm.cap.so.2 ;-) I remember reading somewhere a good explanation why not use
Accelerated X on debian, I don't remember what is was.

>
>
> Can i easily upgrade to a newer version of Xfree?
>

If you computer is online, add the following to /etc/apt/sources.list:
   deb http://www.debian.org/~vincent/ xfree-update main
then you can use apt-get to install the new packages. I guess you also want to get a
recent version of gnome, then add:
   deb http://www.debian.org/~vincent/ slink-update main
to /etc/apt/sources.list.

>
> If so how?
>
> Thanks
> Rick
>
> I tried installing Corel Linux already and it trashed my partition table
> and also does not give an option of where to install lilo and automaticlly
> installs in the MBR so now i am trying just debian.
>
> Thanks
> Rick
>
> Rick Knebel
> rknebel@uplink.net
>
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