Re: iMac questions.....


Mike Sterling (mike@killedkenny.com)
Mon, 05 Apr 1999 16:10:59 -0700


At 05:07 PM 4/5/99 -0600, Dan Burcaw wrote:
>> >Ahh.. you need to make the symlink to XF68_Dev..
>> >
>> >Try this: cd /etc/X11/ ; ln -s ../../usr/X11R6/bin/XF68_FBDev ./X
>> >Then startx.. This should do the trick.
>>
>> The saga continues....
>>
>> It looks like that server wasn't included in the distribution. So, I
>> downloaded it from the iMac linux site mentioned previously
>> (http://w3.one.net/~johnb/imaclinux/) and copied it to
>> /usr/X11R6/bin/XF68_FBDev and ln -s'ed it to /etc/X11/X.
>>
>> Still no go.
>>
>> execve failed for /etc/X11/X (errno 13)
>>
>> The rest of the error is the same.
>>
>> I'm getting closer....I can feel it.
>
>It's included :)
>on your CDROM... RedHat/RPMS/XFree86-FBDev-3.3.3.1-29b.ppc.rpm
>
>Install that, verify the symlink, and startx.

Ok, now here's the dumb question:

How come this wasn't installed by default?

I chose to install both the XWindows system and KDE, and from what I could
tell, no X servers were installed.

Feature?

Mike



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