Re: X server issue

On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 15:56 +0000, David Pead wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I managed to install Sarge on OldWorld Mac - beige G3. Everything
> 'was'
> fine. Then after an attempt to add screen resolutions higher than
> 800x600,
> I've knackerd the X window server.
>
> After looking through the archives I, rightly or wrongly, used:
> dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86
> After looking through a very old O'rielly book on Debian, I also tried
> using:
> XF86config
>
> Now, after looking through Debian reference guide I've seen that there
> is a
> reference to XF3 server (v3) which mentions 'mach64'. The card in the
> old G3
> is of this type. Could this have something to do with my non-starting
> X-server?

the version of xfree86 in sarge is 4.3 i believe. xfree86 version 3 had
separate server packages for all corresponding chipsets, in xfree86 4
they were all lumped into 1 package.

-matt zagrabelny


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