Re: new to debian...
On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 12:48:35PM -0500, Jim Kannengieser wrote:
> Thank you for this suggestion. I tried it last night and the upgrade went
> very well, except for one problem. X no longer starts. I get a specific
> socket-related error message, but I left the text of it at home and won't
> have be able to quote it for a while. However, I can say that even
> XF86Setup failed to connect to the X server. X was pretty bad for me
> before the upgrade to potato because the version of xfree86 that came with
> slink didn't recognize my Matrox G200 AGP card. I'll play with things
> tonight and see what progress I can make.
If your using XF86Setup, I believe it requires the VGA16 server (so
you'll need that, as well as the SVGA server). There's also text-mode
xf86config. Also, I had to set the video ram, XF86Setup didn't set it
properly (8192 = 8MB).
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