Oh, it's hard to say where to start on this one....
I upgraded from Debian 2.2r3 to testing (woody) and am having the following problems since my apt-get dist-upgrade.
1st off, it's screwed my keymap, so I cannot seem to find a combination to produce the pipe symobol | (very annoying!)
2nd, it (rather predictably) screwed my X configuration. It seems that X4.1.0 no longer supports the S3 server. (mine's a S3 trio 64+ to be exact). However, dpkg -l shows that I have two xserver-common packages, one 3.3.6, one 4.1.0 . the xserver-s3 package is still version 3.3.6, as is xserver -vga. There may be others, since I cannot dpkg -l | more !
XF86Config brings no joy- it appears to produce a 3.3.6 style config, and XF86Setup segfaults immediately.
I'm new to the debian packaging system, so erm... help???? My first choice is to fix the console's keymap. Then I probably want to uninstall X completely and grab Xfree86 3.3.6 of my install CD's again, and then resolving the conflicts this will cause is another question entirely....
*eep*
Ricardo
Hi Ricardo
Things may vary on Debian, but... If your XF86Config is OK or you have a backup, just create a symlink /etc/X11/X to point to the X-server /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_S3 if ou have 3.3.6 installed.
Regards, Paul.
On Wednesday 22 May 2002 23:40, Ricardo Campos wrote:
2nd, it (rather predictably) screwed my X configuration. It seems that X4.1.0 no longer supports the S3 server. (mine's a S3 trio 64+ to be exact). However, dpkg -l shows that I have two xserver-common packages, one 3.3.6, one 4.1.0 . the xserver-s3 package is still version 3.3.6, as is xserver -vga. There may be others, since I cannot dpkg -l | more !
Ricardo Campos corez23@linuxmail.org wrote:
1st off, it's screwed my keymap, so I cannot seem to find a combination to produce the pipe symobol | (very annoying!)
"loadkeys uk" or what?
2nd, it (rather predictably) screwed my X configuration. It seems that X4.1.0 no longer supports the S3 server.
Testing has both X3 and X4 at the moment, fortunately for those like me who have crashing cards in X4. For X4, all is xserver-xfree86, I think. The X3 xserver-common now is xserver-common-v3.
Anyway, to switch between X3's xserver-s3 and the new one, running "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-s3" should do the trick, IIRC. It'll ask you which X server you want to run as default. Does that help? dpkg-reconfigure is sometimes a handy tool when stuff breaks ;-)
On Wed, 22 May 2002, Ricardo Campos wrote:
Oh, it's hard to say where to start on this one....
I upgraded from Debian 2.2r3 to testing (woody) and am having the following problems since my apt-get dist-upgrade.
http://www.moof.org.uk/ Has a useful guide to how to do this nicely.
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