Re: Install XF86_SVGA server?
I re-CC'd d-u. I have major qualms giving help offlist for numerous
reasons, the least of which is that the next guy may need the same help.
On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Mike Randall wrote:
>John,
>
>Thank you for the reply, I have an ATI Rage Fury AGP card, it is in the
>list of cards to choose.
xserver-mach64 I'm not sure it does mach128 all that well, but it's
better'n SVGA. In fact, you could get away with reading ATI for mach64,
as all ATI cards that I know about are covered under the mach64 banner
nowadays, even my extreme legacy VGA wonder. Most of them will perform
after a fashion under SVGA, but 256 colors at 1024x768 is a crying shame
with a Rage.
>I had X working once, for a day, but the old hard disk died while I was
>installing Linux. I still don't know what combination of choices I made
>that allowed me to install the SVGA server.
>
>--Mike
>
>John Galt wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Mike Randall wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I'm a Linux newbie and am attempting to install XF86 with Debian 2.2r3.
>>>
>>> I get this error message when running the configuration utility:
>>>
>>> *** The server required by your card is not installed! Please abort,
>>> install the SVGA server as /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA and run this program
>>> again. ***
>>
>>
>> Which card? xserver-svga is pretty generic, but there are some
>> specialized ones that you may need to look at other xservers for.
>>
>>> So how do I get the XF86_SVGA server/file installed from the CD rom
>>> images I made?
>>
>>
>> If you have apt configured, apt-get xserver-svga
>>
>> If not, use dselect to pull it off the CD.
>>
>> Failing that, mount the CD, find xserver-svga.deb (there will be some
>> largely irrelevant numbers after, so don't paste that exactly), and dpkg
>> -i
>>
>> I'm surprised that the potato tasksel let you off without xserver-svga...
>>
>>> Fortunately, I do know my way around Unix systems as a user. I can
>>> navigate the file system, mount the CD and use vi for basic stuff.
>>>
>>> Any and all help is greatly appreciated!
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
>
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FINE, I take it back: UNfuck you!
Who is John Galt? galt@inconnu.isu.edu, that's who!
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