Re: X

[John Bagdanoff <bagdanof@home.com>]

On Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 05:48:26PM +0100, Johan Ur Riise wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 08:38:13AM -0800, John Bagdanoff wrote:
> > 
> > See if you have xserver-xfree86 installed.
> I have now, but I had to install it manually
Why manually?  You don't use apt-get?  If you are using apt-get
install, what's the output?
> > 
> > If not, then:
> > apt-get install xserver-xfree86
> > 
> > Then run dexter
> 
> dexter will not run,
> dexter: unknown X server (X) detected!
> but I ran 
> XFree86 -configure
> and it made a config file for me. Managed to set the 
> defaultcolordepth in the file, resolution is next to go.
If it's not /etc/X/XF86Config-4 then you're not there yet.

I think you have some packages missing.  How about:
xutils

just another newbie
john


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