Re: Xwindow help needed

2000-01-16 Thread Alice M. Pinard
Yay! I have X again. Ok for those also having similar trouble (Hi Steve :) I'm going to try and set down what I did in the hopes that this will help till Vincent can get back to someone :) (_anyone_ :) I had gone into /var/cache/apt/packages and dpkg -i'd everything xfree86'ish that I had 3.3.5 p

Re: Xwindow help needed

2000-01-15 Thread Alice M. Pinard
On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, Alice M. Pinard wrote: > I'm having similar trouble from what I can tell in the 3.3.6 slink > xfree86 update xbase-clients and xserver-common conflict. (which means as > far as I can tell with my very brief experience with x and debian packages > that I can have my clien

Re: Xwindow help needed

2000-01-15 Thread Alice M. Pinard
On 15 Jan 2000, Steve Winston wrote: > Xwindows still doesn't work. It won't install, and > startx no longer exists. Somehow, I have Xfree86 3.3.6 > instead of 3.3.5. > I had to reinstall debian after win98 on the same disk > crashed. Anyway, I reinstalled Debian (slink), did > apt-get update an

Xwindow help needed

2000-01-15 Thread Steve Winston
Xwindows still doesn't work. It won't install, and startx no longer exists. Somehow, I have Xfree86 3.3.6 instead of 3.3.5. I had to reinstall debian after win98 on the same disk crashed. Anyway, I reinstalled Debian (slink), did apt-get update and ended up with Xfree86 3.3.6 to my surprise. Whe