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On Sat, 10 Jul 1999 11:30:59 -0500, Mark Gordon <mtg### [at] mailbag com>
wrote:
>Mark Gordon wrote:
>>
>> Debian seems to have some ... interesting ... policies regarding what
>> versions of software they ship. This affects everything from shared
>> libraries to X. I haven't been able to get X to run at better than
>> 80x60 or so, nor am I able to get X to recognize my mouse, and the
>> configuration utilities look like they date to around 1993. I'm going
>> to throw an older, Debian-supported video card in my box and see what I
>> can find out.
>
>Latest update: My old video card is recognized by Debian, but I have to
>rebuild the kernel to support a PS/2 mouse. :-P
Oddly enough, I had no problem setting up X for my video or ps/2 mouse
on Debian. XF86Setup worked well. The video is a GraphicsBlaster
128zx (Riva TNT), so I told it to use the Nvidia driver and forced the
video memory setting to 8mb. As to the mouse, once I set it to
/dev/psaux instead of /dev/mouse it was fine.
As to the POV troubles, I now have Superpatch compiled and working.
According to ldd, the libraries required by the downloaded binaries
were all present, so I don't have a clue why they didn't work. If it
means anything, I noticed that my (stripped) standard 3.1g x-povray
was about 50k smaller than the downloaded one.
Jerry Anning
clem "at" dhol "dot" com
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