Re: [PLUG] XFree86 v4 setup

[Bill Jonas <bill@billjonas.com>]

On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 02:48:05AM +0200, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> I can't say that xf86cfg-v3 (what I have) is an improvement over
> XF86Setup. I felt more comfortable and could move faster through it's
> semi-gui lists and drawings. Oh, well. I wonder why XF86 folks moved
> from crude graphics to text only.

Try using anXious, the Debian configuration tool.  It's text-based.

IIRC, you need to install xserver-common and xserver-xfree86 to get
startx.  But it's been a little while and my memory might be a bit
faulty on that detail.  ("dpkg -S /usr/bin/X11/startx" can't find that
file in a package...)

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