Re: How to upgrade to XFree86 4 on unstable ?
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 02:48:06PM -0700, Andrew Agno wrote:
| Balbir Thomas writes:
| > > > You probably still have the X link pointing to your old X server.
| > > > Change it to point to your new X server and you'll be good to go. Not
| > > > too sure where the link is--probably somewhere in /usr/X11R6/bin. You
| > > > want to move the link to point to ./XFree86 instead of, for example,
| > > > XF86_SVGA.
| > > >
| > > > Andrew.
| > >
| > > But /usr/X11R6/bin/X is not a link ??
| > >
| > I finally found it. It is the X link in /etc/X11 that must point to the
| > xserver . This got the xserver started . Hmmm. ... but the colors don't
| > look right :-(.
|
| Ah--right, sorry. My Redhat background :)
Yeah, in RH /usr/X11R6/bin/X is a symlink, but with Debian I don't
have any symlinks. Instead I have /etc/Xserver :
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/usr/bin/X11/XF86_SVGA
Console
The first line in this file is the full pathname of the default X
server.
The second line shows who is allowed to run the X server:
RootOnly
Console (anyone whose controlling tty is on the console)
Anybody
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This file tells Debian (I don't know which part ;-)) which X server to
use. BTW, I still have 3.3.6 but I am upgrading to woody at the
moment.
-D
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