"David J. Roundy" wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 02:40:59PM -0400, Gaby Levinson wrote: > > > > I am quite new to debian (ex 4-year LinuxPPC user) and am desperatly > > trying to figure out how to use apt-get etc. > > > > I have been able to get debian (potato, installed from burned CD images) > > mostly running on my tibook, but it seems I need XFree86 4.0 to make it > > run full screen. > > > > If I try doing apt-get install xserver-xfree86 I get errors about > > dependancys that are unmet (i have the "branden woody" line in my sources > > file). It wants to see debconf, xserver-common and libc6) If I try to > > install them by hand I get other dependancy errors. > > The simplest thing might just be to upgrade to woody. To do this, you edit > your sources.list to point to woody (or testing), and then run 'aptget > dist-upgrade'. This might be simplest, as XFree86 4.0 is not in potato, > but it is in woody. > > Of course, you'll probably only want to do this if you have a fast internet > connection, as it'll probably require a heck of a lot of downloads...
If you just get apt and then X from testing, it shouldn't be too much. Note that you will need a 1152x768 modeline for 'fullscreen' at any rate. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer CS student, Free Software enthusiast \ XFree86 and DRI project member
