Michael Leone on Mon, 25 Mar 2002 01:43:47 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] Upgrading the Libranet


On Mon, 2002-03-25 at 00:17, Mental Patient wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 2002-03-24 at 18:24, Michael Leone wrote:
> > So I upgraded my Libranet, from potato to testing. And, of course, it
> > totally broke my X-Windows.
> > 
> > <SIGH>
> > 
> > There are no errors in the XFree86 log. And none of the X configuring
> > programs I'm used to seem to be there - anXious, the Xconfigurator that
> > RH uses, etc. I even copied the XF86Config-4 file from my old Mandrake
> > installation - nothing. "startx" flickers the screen, and then dumps me
> > back to the command line.
> > 
> > So I temporarily booted back into the old drive. So what's a decent X
> > configurator for Debian, anyway?
> 
> XFree86 -configure has worked for me, at least for configuring XFree
> 4.x. The file generated is usually pretty close to what I want.

Nope. Same thing. Nothing.

> Debian had or has something specific to use, I always just used the
> stuff that is part of X. Its much less distro specific. 
> 
> As for the ximian stuff, whats wrong with the version of evolution in
> testing?

No idea; I personally use Evolution, and will continue to. :-)




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