On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Paul Nesbit wrote: > Hi, > I 'm a newbie to linux, and have chosen Debian (slink?) as the > distribution that I will learn from.
Welcome! (: > My install was successful, and now I have a long list of things to do: > Configure XF86 > Configure PPP > Rebuild and customize Kernel > Upgrade to most recent dist. Looks ok to me. The only thing i might change is to configure PPP before XF86. > I'm still stuck trying to configure XF86: > When I try to select my video card (Trident GUI 9660) the Xf86Setup > says I need to be running /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA, which isn't on my > sysstem. /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_VGA16 is there, not that is matters. > Where do I get XF86_SVGA. Am I just missing the package? I've tried > finding a package with that name using dselect (&CD ROM) with no luck. > What am I missing? The package is named "xserver-svga", it should be in main/x11. In the dselect package listing, you can press '/' to enter search mode, then type the name of the package and it'll search for it for you. Alternatively, you can find it manually on the CD and do "dpkg -i package.deb"
