On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Josef Dalcolmo wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > I installed from Potato CDs and then upgraded to Woody over a PPP > > connection. Because I knew that there were major changes between > > Potato and Woody reguarding XFree86, I put off the configuration of X > > until the upgrade. > > > I did the same (on a different machine) - here are my notes: > > Make sure all packages installed are XFree4 (not XFree3) packages - with > dselect.
I'm using apt-get... > > use xserver-XFree (not xserver-svga) Well, actually it is xserver-xfree86 ;-) I had to go into dselect to figure this one out... Seems like this isn't exactly intuitive. Someone with a Potato system will just do a dist-upgrade like I did, and get xserver-svga upgraded. I guess this should go into the upgrade notes... Anyway, this seems to fix the debconf problem, but I still don't have a working X. There are several things that bother me about the information in the log. I get an error from xf86OpenSerial that says: cannot open device /dev/input/mice ..., but I declared /dev/psaux as the mouse device! This doesn't seem to stop the install as there is a later message about adding extended input device "Configured Mouse", but I'm still not sure why... What _does_ kill the server is the Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed'. I remember a posting about this as well, but don't remember what the solution was, and can't find those postings... It seems we still don't have an "Idiot's" installation for X ;-) > > When asked for the type of monitor you get 3 choices, something like > simple - medium - detailed > > I chose medium and exaggerated first on the resolution and repeat rate of my > screen, then later I chose the particular resolution and repeat rate I wanted > as the default (and only) resolution. Yes, this is the process using the debconf screens, but what do I tell xf86configure when it askes for a monitor type? Thanks for the pointers, Dwarf -- What two word phrase entered the English language after a pilot reported seeing nine of them near Mt. Rainier in June of 1947? (My birth month)
