Matthew P. Cummings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quoth: > On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 19:07, Sarah wrote: > > Hey, > > > > I'm trying to get X working on my A4000 (btw the woody install went fine, > > turns out it was prob with CD drive). > > I'm using fbdev. However X fails with the error: > > The only solution I have found to running X on the Amiga is one that was > posted in the past. If you extract the server from > xserver-fbdev_3.3.6-11potato32.deb and place it in /usr/X11R6/bin and > then link /etc/X to it and use the example configuration from the docs > for that server it works. > > I extracted it like this; > > dpkg -x xserver-fbdev_3.3.6-11potato32.deb /home/whatever > > which gives you a usr directory under the home directory and then you > can go in there and get what you need. >
Excellent, that version of X works grand, thanks for the help guys. Now all I have to do is find a network card. :) Sarah