At 10:26 PM 11/10/98 -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: >Jerry E. McGoveran wrote: >> Ah Ha! So, the usual package dependancies that apt takes care of >> is not applicable to X? (startx is not found on my system, and I never >> ran any configuration utility for X and I loaded the olvwm package with >> apt-get.) > > > More likely: There has been a major change in the way X11 is packaged >for Debian; this has introduced a few problems. Go thru the x11 section >in dselect and familiarize yourself with the new packages. The >'xserver-common' package has the startx command.
Tried to find xserver-common with dselect and with apt-get, but was unable to locate it. Loaded instead xserver-vga16. Afterwards ran XF86Setup and got this: maui:/usr/X11R6/bin# export PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin maui:/usr/X11R6/bin# which XF86Setup /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86Setup maui:/usr/X11R6/bin# XF86Setup Couldn't read card database file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/Cards What now? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Certus Consulting Group | Specializing in Integrated Circuit Antioch, CA 94509 | Design and Verification, Logic (925)757-0685 | Synthesis, Fault Grading, and <http://www.certus.com> | Test Development
