On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 03:08:39AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> During configuration of xserver-xfree86, ati is not offered as a
> card driver choice; worked around by configuring for fbdev then
> changing the configuration file afterwards
The fix for this will be in the next version I release.
> After installation of the packages, despite being asked the questions,
> I was strangely left w/o an /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file. Running
> 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86' and running thru the packages again
> managed to install that conffile though. Wierd.
Hrm, yes. I can't think of how this is possible, but all the logic for
writing/overwriting this file is in Bourne shell. See
/var/lib/dpkg/info/xserver-xfree86.{config,postinst}.
It's not a conffile, BTW.
> During configuration of mouse, was not offered /dev/sunmouse.
>
> Am confused on what the mouse protocol is called in XF86 v4. The
> sunmouse is not mentioned in
> /usr/share/doc/xserver-xfree86/README.mouse.gz .
If someone can kindly explain to me exactly how to cover the possible
scenarios (port + protocol), I'll add code for it.
My UltraSPARC is a Donovan machine and thus physically resembles an ATX
Intel machine more than anything else.
> Was left with both
> InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
> InputDevice "Generic Mouse"
> in XF86Config-4. That caused crashes.
You don't have /dev/input?
> On starting X server, keyboard seems totally fudged. All keys
> remapped to garbage, unable to escape with Ctrl-Alt-Bksp or
> Ctrl-Alt-F1, had to ssh into the box and kill the window manager
> manually.
You probably have a type4/type5/type6/whatever keyboard. I don't yet have
any debconf templates for XKB configuration.
> Let me know how else I can help. Please CC me on replies, I'm not on
> this list.
CC'ing per your request.
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