On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 12:52:31PM -0500, Dale Scheetz wrote: > 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...
I got this after a recent upgrade to an existing woody system, so it probably is more related to the specific X4 version than the upgrade. X wouldn't start until I reconfigured it but IIRC, I then had to edit the "ServerLayout" section of XF86Config-4 to specify the "Configured Mouse". I seem to recall that the /dev/input stuff was added for USB mice. The reconfiguration put back in the default NV driver instead of the Nvidia driver I had been using, but since I don't notice any difference, I just left it alone. > > 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? > I don't know about xf86configure, but did 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86', chose to use debconf, selected "advanced" for monitor and the following questions were pretty straightforward. I expect that if I had chosen "simple", it would have picked fairly benign defaults. Bob
