Re: Embarassing NEWBIE Question

1999-10-27 Thread Mary Honeycutt
Mary Honeycutt wrote: > > "Bryan K. Walton" wrote: > > > > Hi, > > Please forgive me for asking such an embarassing question: I have > > installed Debian 2.1 on my laptop and have struggled to correctly > > configure X. So I am now preparing to install XFree86 3.3.5 which I have > > been

Re: Embarassing NEWBIE Question

1999-10-27 Thread Mary Honeycutt
"Bryan K. Walton" wrote: > > Hi, > Please forgive me for asking such an embarassing question: I have > installed Debian 2.1 on my laptop and have struggled to correctly > configure X. So I am now preparing to install XFree86 3.3.5 which I have > been told will fix my problem. I have all

Re: Embarassing NEWBIE Question

1999-10-27 Thread Ethan Benson
On 26/10/99 Eric G . Miller wrote: Am wondering were you got the binaries from? Are they debs (*.deb) or are they tarballs (*.tar.gz, or *.tgz, or just *.tar)? right, don't install tarballs or do make install for things that are managed by dpkg, I buddy of mine new to debian tried updating XF

Re: Embarassing NEWBIE Question

1999-10-27 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 10:20:11PM -0500, Bryan K. Walton wrote: > Hi, > Please forgive me for asking such an embarassing question: I have > installed Debian 2.1 on my laptop and have struggled to correctly > configure X. So I am now preparing to install XFree86 3.3.5 which I have > been t

Embarassing NEWBIE Question

1999-10-27 Thread Bryan K. Walton
Hi, Please forgive me for asking such an embarassing question: I have installed Debian 2.1 on my laptop and have struggled to correctly configure X. So I am now preparing to install XFree86 3.3.5 which I have been told will fix my problem. I have all of the XFree86 3.3.5 files burned ont