Re: I messed up Xfree86

["Thomas J. Hamman" <hawk3@eagnet.com>]

On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 11:13:41PM -0500, Joel Dinel wrote:

> OK, I found out that you don't use XF86Setup anymore.
>
> XFree86 -configure seems to detect my stuff OK. When I run XFree86
> -xf86config /root/whatever.file I get a nice empty gray screen, and
> the mouse won't mouse. That's as far as it goes.
>
> xf86cfg brings up a gray screen with still no mouse movement. I
> disabled GPM, and I have an Logitech PS/2 mouse.

I noticed the Debian X 4.0.1 packages (specifically xserver-common) come
with a little program called dexter, which set up my XF86Config just
fine.

-- 
Tom
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