Re: config of xfree86 with i810
No flames please, regarding one's choice of window manager, editor, etc.
Can never says one's choice is the best. ;-)
Once upon a time, "francisco m . neto" <einstein@socrates.if.usp.br> found a keyboard. And typed:
>» V.Suresh disse isso e eu digo aquilo:
>
>> First, install all packages for X, mostly done during installation itself.
>> Now run xf86config, and select VGA-16. Then startx, see if X comes up,
>> It should, but with an ugly resolution & color. What you need is
>> SVGA server, but if you select SVGA during xf86config, and then
>> run startx, it wont come up. Now the real trouble. Two things I
>> did:
>
>> 1. Compile 2.4.x kernel, and install it. Boot through 2.4.x kernel.
>
> That's not needed. I'm using 2.2.18-pre21.
>
>> 2. Then, (I had previously downloaded .tgz files of XFree96 V 4.0)
>> install the X 4.0 packages. They will overwrite all your X 3.3.x
>> files.
>
> It would have been better if you used deb packages for
>it. Using the tgz way, dpkg will get a bit crazy about dependencies.
>
>> 3. Now again xf86config, select SVGA server, then startx. VIOLA - All
>> The beauty of X + wmaker. ;-)
>
> In XFree4, there are not that lot of X servers from
>XFree3. There is only one server - XFree86 - and several drivers. You
>must specify it in xf86config.
>
>> Correct me if I had done something silly. ;-)
>
> Silly thing you've done: you chose wmaker ;-PPP
>
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> francisco m. neto, compulsive afterstep/gnome user
> (a.k.a Fujikuro)
>
>ICQ # 78493934
>
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> -- Ayanami Rei
>
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