Slink's X is not in an extremely usable state. Unless you feel like being a guinea pig, downgrade to hamm's version.
On 08-Nov-98 Mikael Suomela wrote: > I did an apt-get dist-upgrade yesterday and slink is great! Except for > the fact that it did some wierd things for my X. > First off I couldn't get it to work at all and after uninstalling and > re-installing + some symlinking the Xserver started to run. Now my > problem is that I can run X as root only if I use "startx". Xdm lets me > run it as a user...though I have to log in as root first in text mode to > get xdm running. > When I try to run XF86Setup, it won't start complaining about missing > xvidtune and when I try to run xvidtune, the error message says that I > should install xvidtune before using it. I would gladly install xvidtune > if knew how...I thought it was in the Xserver-vga16 package which I > installed using apt. Any ideas how I would get XF86Setup running? > Another question I have is that how do I configure xdm to launch X at > boot time so I wouldn't have to log in as root? I have placed a command > for it in etc/init.d and I ran update-rc.d... > > Lots of thanks in advance, > Mikael > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null
