Hello This is my first post to this list, I think it is the right place, but please redirect me if it's not.
Today I installed a minimal system 2.2r5 from an official cdrom, and then set /etc/apt/sources.list to track on the 'testing' distribution. The source of the cdrom and testing packages was mirror.aarnet.edu.au. I then tried to install X from 'testing': # apt-get install x-windows-system-core I encountered a problem with configuring the package - the i810.o module failed to load because the relevant device file /dev/agpgart had not been created. I created it with # cd /etc; mknod agpgart c 10 175 and after that everything worked fine. However it seems to me that the device file should have been there, and/or debconf should have tested for it and explained the problem. Is this a side-effect of my install procedure? Is it reasonable to expect the device file should have been created for me? This is more of a usability issue than a real bug. But it does get in the way of a new user trying things out. It's unclear to me where the responsibility for this one lies; kernel-xxx, xserver-xfree86, or debconf? Vince
